Top 1200 Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

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

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

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.

Conservatives in Government must make the case that lowering the tax burden boosts economic growth and leads to an increase in tax revenues.

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

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.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

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

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.

Tax cuts are temporary, tax increases are permanent.

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

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

The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.

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

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

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.

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

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

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

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.