George Papandreou Quotes

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

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

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.

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.

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

I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.

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

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

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

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.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

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.

When you find out that 40 percent of the big corporate taxpayers paid less than $500 in tax, you begin to think something is amiss.

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

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

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 result of offshore tax evasion is a disproportionate tax burden on law-abiding citizens and fewer resources available for public spending or tax cuts.

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.

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