Michael Crapo Quotes

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

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

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

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

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

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

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

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

[Addressing a young aide:] You have a college education, haven't you? I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, but I don't know where that book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it!

The Internal Revenue Code is like a tire that has been patched over and over…. At this point however, it is more patch than tire.

The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

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.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

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 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.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.