tax payer (2 words) or taxpayer (1 word)?

English Bus/Financial Law: Taxation & Customs Spelling

Which is the correct way to write this? I see both being used. Thanks for any help.

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Aisha Maniar

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taxpayer

at least in the UK

Peer comment(s):

agree	Armorel Young : yes, so says the OED 3 mins
	thanks, the other variant may be a typo
agree	MikeGarcia 4 mins
	thanks
agree	Vicky Papaprodromou 5 mins
	thanks
agree	William [Bill] Gray : And ever so many more hits on Google than as two words! But I suspect that we could not say one was more "correct", just more commonly used. It's even sometimes written with a hyphen, although in general the hyphen is being dropped in English. 13 mins
	yes, it's not a question of which is more correct but at least in Britain, we (including the tax authorities) use the term as one word more commonly
agree	jarry (X) : In South Africa, which mostly follows UK spelling, it is invariably written as one word. 37 mins
	thanks
agree	Alison Jenner 1 hr
	thanks
agree	Lubosh Hanuska 1 hr
	thanks
agree	Ken Cox : always one word in NA (US and Canada) usage 1 hr
	thanks
agree	Sophia Finos (X) 2 hrs
	thanks
agree	Alexander Demyanov 2 hrs
	thanks
agree	Roman Bardachev 4 hrs
	thanks
agree	Charlesp 5 hrs
	thanks
agree	Madeleine MacRae Klintebo 6 hrs
	thanks
agree	Can Altinbay 9 hrs
	thanks
agree	Will Matter : US usage is 'taxpayer'. 9 hrs
	thanks
agree	Alfa Trans (X) 5 days

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