Quotes About Tax

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

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

We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.

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

We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world.

So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.

In the 1980s, Democrats enthusiastically helped President Reagan pass his tax reforms, which made the tax system fairer and more efficient in addition to reducing rates.

Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a leap forward to a fairer and less confusing tax system.

An optimised tax structure gives us the possibility of flexibility in using our assets that have already been taxed in one market. They can be used in new markets for further business development without the additional burden of double taxation.

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.