Subramanian Swamy Quotes

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

People have to cooperate. Many people and traders here try to evade tax. They don’t want to pay tax so they smuggle goods and services into this country to make more money—as much as possible. The also manipulate the foreign currency market.

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

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

Massive tax avoidance. Billions and billions of dollars.

There isn't a rich man in your vast city who doesn't perjure himself every year before the tax board. They are all caked with perjury, many layers thick. Iron-clad, so to speak. If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates.

There will be huge scandals because there is too much money washing around …. And we don’t know who’s behind it.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

We tax the people in Watts to send the children of Beverly Hills to college.

The rich aren't like us—they pay less taxes.

Although the Australian landowners [of the late 1800s] wailed and bleated about the eventual resort to direct taxes, it was becoming increasingly clear that many had virtually stolen the land in the first place….We learn from the lessons of history that the wealthy in this country have always used each and every means at their disposal to block any and all measures designed to ensure that they pay any, let alone their "fair share", of the taxes necessary to pay for commonly used infrastructure and services, just as they do today.

A person who steals a chicken might go to jail … but a person who steals millions is welcome to be a member of the Federation Council or the Duma.