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Quotes About Tax

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
~ Ken Livingstone
Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.
~ Reince Priebus
I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein
The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.
~ Jeffrey D. Sachs
Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.
~ Robin Roberts
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
~ Edith Sitwell
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
~ Honore de Balzac
I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
~ Bono
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.
~ Paul Krugman
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?
~ Bob Hope
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Obviously, he needed to kill Bubba, but how? The man was a trained prison guard twice his size. The tax auditors had been easy. Mr. Ethics had slapped them to death with their own attaché cases. And even then, his neighbours had chipped in to help him hide the bodies. "A tax auditor, you say? No problem. Let me get my spade.
~ Will Ferguson
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
~ Will Rogers
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
~ Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
~ Will Rogers
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
~ Will Rogers
Instead, anxious to maintain their revenues at a time of low production and high military expenditure, the Company, in one of the greatest failures of corporate responsibility in history, rigorously enforced tax collection and in some cases even increased revenue assessments by 10 per cent.
~ William Dalrymple
It costs more to transact abroad, and many foreign governments tax stock dividends; although you can recover this cost in a taxable account through the foreign tax credit on your U.S. tax return, you cannot do so in a retirement account.
~ William J. Bernstein
by removing the 10p band on non-savings income'. Here, what looked like a simplification of the tax system was in fact the abolition of the 10p tax rate that Brown had so proudly introduced when he first became Chancellor. This change meant that someone earning £10,000 a year would lose £223 a year from the abolition of the 10p tax rate and gain just £50 a year from the reduction in income tax from 22p to 20p
~ David Craig
have tried to show the scale of the problem and suggest some actions our Government should take to help us out of our current economic quagmire. These have included giving our bureaucrats a short, sharp shock with the imposition of a four-day week; scrapping corporation tax; bringing in a False Claims Act; cutting the cost of politics; protecting our national assets; taking on the pensions and unit trust industry and standing up to the EU.
~ David Craig