Quotes About Income

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.

Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what your income is.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

We want your pre-field income tax returns to reach to you and we are working on it. We are also working to simplify GST returns.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.

The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the fundamental truth that machines can do a lot of things better than humans used to do. A lot of those people are being pushed down to do less value-adding jobs, so they get paid less money.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

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

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

We believe in lowering taxes for everyone, and those tax reductions should be targeted at people with middle and modest incomes, and I don't say that rhetorically.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.