Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

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.

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.

Tax has generated a significant amount of discussion, and companies are forced to do what they can to maintain that global competitiveness and perform.

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

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

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

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

The income tax created more criminals than other single act of government.

You can close [tax] loopholes, but people will always find new ones.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

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.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

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

If you don't drink, smoke or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

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

The public, investors and stakeholders now expect higher standards of tax compliance and more transparency from large businesses about the way they approach taxation.

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.

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

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

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

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