Quotes About Tax

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

A lot of companies incorporate in Delaware," Sloane said. "The business laws are more favorable, and there is no state corporate income tax so long as the company does not transact business within Delaware.

They like the tax because they believe, correctly, that it will stimulate much needed savings and investment. But it's an even better policy instrument than they think.

Hong Kong's maximum tax (the "standard rate") has normally been 15 percent, effectively capping the marginal rate at high income levels (in exchange for no personal exemptions).

If a building is a historical building, the government may give you a tax credit, which is far better than a tax deduction, to improve your investment

about a billion dollars in tax-free income per annum in today's money.

the tax constituted the second largest source of federal revenues and was indispensable to Hamilton. If deprived of that crucial tax, he would have to raise tariffs, which would encourage more smuggling and tax evasion and spur commercial retaliation abroad. The government also needed money to finance military expeditions against the Indians—expeditions that were especially popular in the affected frontier communities, such as those of western Pennsylvania.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that "the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more that the thousandth part of what will be paid to [the] kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

A progressive digital ad revenue tax would also make sure that dominant social media platforms bear the brunt of the tax.

I support a progressive state income tax.

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs to be ideally progressive to achieve that goal.

Many foreign property owners work in the City of London and are encouraged to bring their expertise and earning power to this country because of the favourable capital tax environment. Attacking their property profit may encourage some to leave, but it would certainly deter others from coming in the first place.