Taxes Quotes

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

I believe that all taxes are bad.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

European lotteries are the tax on fools.