Tax Quotes

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

We should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers.

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

Rick Perry unveiled his new tax plan. He says he wants a flat tax. He believes that tax should be flat, just like the earth.

President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that's a great investment.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.