Top 353 Taxation Quotes & Sayings

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

GST is good idea! It brings hope for a better future. Under the new taxation regime, fruits, vegetables, pulses, wheat, bread and rice are exempted from taxation even as chips, biscuits, butter, tea and coffee are attracting higher taxes. So, that will bring a positive change in our health as well.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.

No taxation without respiration.

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.