Quotes About Tax evasion

How do you get tax money out of moonshine? Answer: You and what army. It goes a ways to explaining people's feelings about taxes and guns.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

Our courts must send a clear signal that India is not a banana republic where foreign companies can be invited to loot our resources and even avoid paying taxes on their windfall gains from the sale of those resources.

Developing countries are losing significant tax revenues through corporate tax dodging.

nosotros viviendo una realidad de película: desquitándoles por un lado a los impuestos, por el otro a las balas perdidas de un atraco o a la furia de un chofer.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

They do not share the sentiment about one another: the hardest thing to do in Greece is to get one Greek to compliment another behind his back. No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

the railroad owners, who evaded taxes, bought legislatures, and overcharged him with discriminatory rates;

For example, your man might think: I don't steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.

Corruption is taken for granted, even grudgingly admired: the guerrilla cunning of the colonised is still ingrained into us, and tax evasion and shady deals are seen as forms of the same spirit of rebellion that hid horses and seed potatoes from the British.

The tax authorities go after small firms and individuals instead of the worst avoiders.

The local IRS office lost about two million dollars in illegal collections they'd been getting.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

It's the right of every red-blooded American to avoid taxes, but not evade them.

Tax avoidance and evasion by the rich undermine democracy by starving social programs and public services. They also send a message to ordinary citizens that the rules of the economic game are rigged against them.

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

The IRS received the following note: "Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find a check for $150. I cheated on my income tax return last year and have not been able to sleep ever since. If I still have trouble sleeping I will send you the rest.