Taxable Property Quotes

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

The first 9 pages of the Internal Revenue Code define income; the remaining 1,100 pages spin the web of exceptions and preferences.

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book, Church Wealth and Business Income, it was estimated that this property -all of it tax-exempt -is worth upwards of 80 billion dollars. I know that's a fantastic, unbelievable figure, but there's every reason to believe that it's on the conservative side; and this amount is increasing yearly at a geometric rate.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Tax reform is taking taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

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

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Taxes are nice in Florida.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

Exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and ... tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?