Donald Sutherland Quotes

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

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.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

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

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

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

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.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

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

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

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

The income tax created more criminals than other single act of government.