Denis Healey Quotes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it.

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

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some [tax] violation

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

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

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

You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

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.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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.

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

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

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.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

'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.

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

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Massive tax avoidance. Billions and billions of dollars.