Top 1200 Tax Rates Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Tax cuts are temporary, tax increases are permanent.

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

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

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

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

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

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

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.

Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.

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.

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

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

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

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

We're trying our best to develop sort of strategies. We have already turned into law a labor reform law that will allow for more opportunities to ensue. We have also established a permits law that will facilitate permits in Puerto Rico. We are about to roll out a comprehensive tax reform that will enhance the base and will reduce the rates in Puerto Rico.

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

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

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

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

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

Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.

The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.

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.

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

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.

...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.

If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.

I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.

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

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

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

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

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

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