Rudy Giuliani Quotes

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

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

I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

I understand the tax code better than anybody that's ever run for president.

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.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

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

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

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

There is spending in the tax code.

The first 9 pages of the Internal Revenue Code define income; the remaining 1,100 pages spin the web of exceptions and preferences.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.