Tax Quotes

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.