Emo Philips Quotes

The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.

Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

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

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.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

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.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Corporations must pay tax.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some [tax] violation

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.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.