Dave Barry Quotes

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

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.

'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.

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

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

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

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

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

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

You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for years by generating something called net operating loss carry-overs.

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.

If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.

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.