Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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.

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

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Everybody should pay taxes.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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

Corporations must pay 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.

You don't pay taxes -- they take taxes.

Paying taxes is a little coercive.

I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

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

There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

I do think corporations should pay their tax.

I pay my taxes.

I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.

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.

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

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

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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.

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