Quotes About Tax

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

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

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

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

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.