An income tax form is like a laundry list – either way you lose your shirt.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to – to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it’s OK.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn’t need a tax after that.

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

I’d like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He...

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that...

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A one-time tax does not get figured into people’s investment decisions.

A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because of the cost of goods increases.

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn’t need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

To the extent that we’ve got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his...

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

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

Social Security is a tax.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on...

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

It’s time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

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

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

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

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.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren’t enough of the rich.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes...

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut – it’s a con.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by… continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin...

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

The government should either force the population to get healthy, or tax them for not complying. If the people still refuse to shape up, they should be imprisoned. Nothing is healthier for society than more...

Well, I’m not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

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

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama’s new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by...

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. “Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald’s. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France,...

Well, you know, we’ve got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.