Tax Dodging Quotes

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

People have to cooperate. Many people and traders here try to evade tax. They don’t want to pay tax so they smuggle goods and services into this country to make more money—as much as possible. The also manipulate the foreign currency market.

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

When you find out that 40 percent of the big corporate taxpayers paid less than $500 in tax, you begin to think something is amiss.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider and on Congress to protect U.S. taxpayers from more of these schemes.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.

African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment.

There isn't a rich man in your vast city who doesn't perjure himself every year before the tax board. They are all caked with perjury, many layers thick. Iron-clad, so to speak. If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.

The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.

Developing countries are losing significant tax revenues through corporate tax dodging.

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.

The result of offshore tax evasion is a disproportionate tax burden on law-abiding citizens and fewer resources available for public spending or tax cuts.

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it's about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be assuaged by seeing the royal family claiming to live like we do. If anything, that will make us angrier.

The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.