Michael Arrington Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

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

From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for years by generating something called net operating loss carry-overs.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

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

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

I was a tax attorney for something like seven years, so I was a tax geek. I was really into it. Tax is one of those things that people think is incredibly boring, but like any science about systems, once you get into it it, becomes incredibly intricate and interesting.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

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

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

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.

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