Sean Connery Quotes

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

Corporations must pay tax.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

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.

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.

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

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

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

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

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

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

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

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

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

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

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

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

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

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

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.