Lauryn Hill Quotes

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

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

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

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.

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

If I have an accountant that just reports I just invested $10 million in my business, and he doesn't exactly itemize where every cost goes, it gives a flag to the government. They want to make sure that the reason I'm not paying taxes is because I'm reinvesting in these businesses and not trying to hide stuff.

The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

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

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

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

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

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.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

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

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