Grant Shapps Quotes

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time … to the making of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his government … a small percentage of his net profits.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Corporations must pay tax.

I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.

The A.M.T. is a parallel system for calculating tax liability intended to ensure that high-income taxpayers pay a substantial amount in federal tax even if they have large deductions or other items to offset income.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.

April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.