Mark Twain Quotes

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time … to the making of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his government … a small percentage of his net profits.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

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

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Everybody should pay taxes.

Sharad Pawar is paying tax.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.