Steve Mnuchin Quotes

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

There's always another loophole to get out of the tax code.

The result of offshore tax evasion is a disproportionate tax burden on law-abiding citizens and fewer resources available for public spending or tax cuts.

You can close [tax] loopholes, but people will always find new ones.

I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs so as to make taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor, and do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more taxes than the law demands. Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.

They rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason when it comes to taxes. That is to slip the bill and stick you with it.