A Quote by Mario Monti

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

Mario Monti

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Mario Monti
Italian - Public Servant
Born: March 19, 1943

Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

Thomas Pogge

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

Peter MacKay

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

Maria Ressa

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Denis Healey

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

Winnie Byanyima

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

George Osborne

Full statehood in Delhi is a larger issue as compared to anti-corruption. For, only when the Delhi government gets its anti-corruption bureau back will it get the power of suspension and vigilance inquiries on corrupt officers of different departments of the government. That is how you can curb the corruption.

Atishi

Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense

Gary Johnson

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

Wesley Snipes

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

Paul Craig Roberts

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

Tom Sharpe

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

Ashraf Ghani

[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

John C. Calhoun

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

Charles Koch

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