Don Drysdale Quotes

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

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

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

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.

Corruption in the kingdom is so great that not more than 10 percent of the taxes collected ever reach the treasury.

There will be huge scandals because there is too much money washing around …. And we don’t know who’s behind it.

Follow the Money

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

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.

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

We cannot allow American taxpayers to foot the bill for tax revenue grabs in Europe and elsewhere.

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime of denying the nation's financial system the proceeds of wealth. Such denial should actually be declared as treason, where opportunities to share the wealth for the benefit of the poor are wilfully denied.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

I have never voted for a tax increase.

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

While giving a clear majority to my government in 2014, the people of the country had also given a clear mandate to take strict action against corruption and black money.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

With commerce comes fraud.