Tax Haven Quotes

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

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.

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

I'll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

Let's face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime.

No state income tax, no snow, lots of golf courses, and ready-made gated communities make Florida an irresistible place for seniors - the ones who have the income level - to retire.

I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

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

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

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

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

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

If the lowest tax rate is the most desirable thing to have, then most people would be living in Mississippi..

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

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.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.