Tax Avoidance, Tax Shelters Quotes

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Estate taxes are the government's way of making up for all the cheating you did on income taxes

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 power to tax is the power to destroy.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received a rebate from the IRS of $260 million. That same year J.P. Morgan had $17.2 billion in profits in the U.S. They also paid no federal income tax. Do you think it's time for tax reform?

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they pay. But I think everybody should pay their taxes.

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.

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

We have two tax systems in America—separate and unequal.

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have deep ties to corporate money. They both have a detailed and complexed view of how some on Wall Street manipulate the game. They know where the excesses are and who is to blame. If willing to take on their friends, they both could reform Wall Street from the inside.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.