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Quotes About Tax

Loneliness is a tax you have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.
~ Alain de Botton
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
~ Thomas Sowell
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
~ George Osborne
The government can put dividends on the same tax basis as capital gains if the tax authorities allow investors to obtain a tax deferral on reinvested dividends until the stock is sold.
~ Jeremy J. Siegel
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.
~ Jesse Ventura
reason Amazon can take on such a slow, inefficient workforce," noted one itinerant worker on her blog, Tales from the Rampage. "Since they are getting us off government assistance for almost three months of the year, we are a tax deduction for them.
~ Jessica Bruder
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit
~ Jessica Bruder
To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle.'71
~ Andrew Roberts
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances the use of Tax Incremental Finance and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
~ Andy Sawford
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
~ Andy Warhol
the top 10 percent of tax units in 2011 commanded 47 percent of all income, with an average income of $255,000. (A tax unit is not identical to a family, nor is income for tax purposes the same as other measures of income, but the overlaps are big enough that these trends are not misleading.)
~ Angus Deaton
I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.
~ Boris Johnson
When the tax law changes and people are allowed to choose where their hard earned money goes, then do-gooders can opt to have their money go wherever they see fit. I would rather keep mine and invest and donate with greater efficiency.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.
~ Joe Biden
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
~ Joe Biden
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
~ Ron Lewis
We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.
~ Priti Patel
At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
~ Bill Haslam
So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.
~ Steven Knight
The Brownback-Colyer administration's lack of interest in ending the border war was emblematic of economic recklessness on their watch that extended well beyond a failed tax experiment.
~ Laura Kelly
I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.
~ Stephen Moore
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
~ Grover Norquist
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
~ Myron Scholes
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick