George Osborne Quotes

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

If you manage a grocery store, you pay 35 percent in taxes. If you manage a hedge fund, you only pay 15 percent.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

Why don't we go all the way and simple take the rich off the tax rolls altogether?

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Very high taxes on the very rich—that was invented in the United States.

My tax break is your tax hike.

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.

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

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

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.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

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

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

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

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the very, very wealthy. But recognize that means that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would pay no income tax at all. And some people say, 'Well, that's a good thing for growth of the economy.'

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.