Robert Blake Quotes

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

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.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

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

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

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.

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

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

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

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.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Corporations must pay tax.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

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

Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time … to the making of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his government … a small percentage of his net profits.

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

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.

Paying taxes is a little coercive.

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

Everybody should pay taxes.

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

As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.