Brad D. Smith Quotes

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

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.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

I voted in support of H.R. 5445, the 21st Century IRS Act, which requires the IRS to place more taxpayer services online.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

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

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

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

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

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

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

No taxation without respiration.