Jim Cooper Quotes

Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

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

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

Smaller tax refunds are not a bad thing - they're a sign that people are keeping more of their money as they earn it, rather than letting Uncle Sam keep it under his mattress for them.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

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

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

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

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

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

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

I can't make a damn thing out of this tax problem. I listen to one side and they seem right—and then I talk to the other side and they seem just as right, and here I am where I started. God, what a job!

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

Wrestling is a lot like any other workplace. You don't really talk religion or politics. But we are all independent contractors, so we pay our taxes quarterly. And we talk about taxes.

I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'

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.