Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say that it's not in the best interest for someone in my tax bracket, but it's not about that. It's about him making the world better and making it equal and even all around, and that's what I'm supporting when I supported Obama.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.