Tax Authority Quotes

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

There was a time when people thought our hosts weren't collecting and remitting taxes, and we've been very proactive about going out and trying to solve this.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be afraid to audit people. So finally some good is coming out of all of this.

You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo - the IRS.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.'

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.

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

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

The IRS, now known for abusing its power by targeting groups for their political beliefs, is a prime example of an overgrown federal agency that doles out enormous bonuses to senior employees.

They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.