Heather Bresch Quotes

I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

Taxes are not something that lends to experimentation. You want to go slow, you could knock the whole economy into a cocked hat with experimentation.

If you don't drink, smoke or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by going offshore or leaving the country.

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

I do think corporations should pay their tax.

The public, investors and stakeholders now expect higher standards of tax compliance and more transparency from large businesses about the way they approach taxation.

We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.

I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

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