Ludacris Quotes

Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.

I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

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

Some of you in this room support higher taxes. I welcome your enthusiasm and am glad to report that the IRS takes both money orders and checks.

I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

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

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

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

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

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

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.

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.

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