taxpay

English

Etymology

Back-formation from taxpayer or taxpaying.

Verb

taxpay (third-person singular simple present taxpays, present participle taxpaying, simple past and past participle taxpaid)

  1. (transitive) To pay tax upon.
    • 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Excise Tax Technical and Administrative Problems
      If he chooses not to bottle in bond, he taxpays the spirits in bulk at 100° proof and then, after taxpayment, reduces the product with water to any proof down to 80° (usually between 86° and 80°).
    • 1957, United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic And Other Laws
      [] affix to each package one or more internal-revenue stamps of the proper class and denomination as will fully taxpay the contents of such package, unless such stamp or stamps shall have been affixed abroad []
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