Michael Crapo Quotes

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

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

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

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

I love talking about taxes.

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

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

I understand the tax code better than anybody that's ever run for president.

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

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

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.