Lewis Black Quotes

I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

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

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual opportunity and economic freedom.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.

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

If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.

The tax code is just too big.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas by cheap labor; it is Trump who hires undocumented workers from Poland to work on his projects, then refuses to pay them minimum wages.

In Ireland here, the Revenue Commission have always been completely independent of the state since 1923, and they are quite adamant and quite clear that there was no preferential treatment and no special deals, no sweetheart deals, and that Apple paid the taxes that were due on their profits generated here in this country.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Mr. Trump's position has been clear from the beginning: He's under audit. When the audit is completed, he'll release his returns.

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.