Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.

I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.

Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.

Tax cuts are temporary, tax increases are permanent.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.

When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.

You may have heard that Donald Trum has long refused to release his tax returns, the way every other nominee for president has done for decades. You can look at 40 years of my tax returns. I think we need a law that says, if you become the nominee of the major parties, you have to release your tax returns.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

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

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.'

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

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

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

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

I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.

Security concerns are especially high with regard to the e-filing of Income Tax returns that is rapidly being extended from commercial entities to individuals. Leading IT security experts and tax consultants are unhappy at the lack of security in e-filing of Income Tax returns.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

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

Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.

OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax breaks. What this did was make them permanent. It gives some certainty for people when they're filing taxes that they don't have to wonder if Congress is going to renew them year after year.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a leap forward to a fairer and less confusing tax system.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It's now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.

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

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

I think it's smart for the United States to have some kind of tax revenue for international earnings - if that tax were reasonable.