Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Social Security is a tax.

Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break.

The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

The more employment one creates, the more tax benefits they will get.

The more money that you have, the easier it becomes to hide that and avoid taxes.