Donald C. Alexander Quotes

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

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.

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

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

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.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

If you buy something on the Internet, and they didn't collect tax, you're supposed to pay it - but nobody knows that. So there's trillions of dollars that were never collected.

At tax time, people are going to say, 'Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn't get away with that.' But that's effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Corporations must pay tax.

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs so as to make taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor, and do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more taxes than the law demands. Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.

Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.

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

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.