Ander Crenshaw Quotes

Fear is the key element for the IRS in achieving its mission. Without fear, the IRS would have a difficult time maintaining our so-called system of ‘voluntary compliance’ .... Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can... the IRS does not really care about you and what your future... may be

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

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.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

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

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

Bashing the Internal Revenue Service is popular ... An impotent agency would allow the would allow the dishonest to avoid paying what they owe, and encourage honest taxpayers to cut corners.

We're not looking for love as tax collectors. We recognize that taxpayers may not be altogether pleased with the bottom line of what we do. But, if they can say to themselves, "I was treated courteously, I was treated promptly and I was treated professionally," then that is part of a customer service that we think is ... appropriate.

Among the general Causes is, First, the unwillingness of the people to pay them [taxes]; arising from an opinion, that by delay and reluctancy they may wholly avoid them, with a suspicion that what is imposed is too much, or that what is collected is embezzled or ill expended, or that it is unequally levied and assessed.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

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.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.

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

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.

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.'

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