Tax Quotes
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Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.
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Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.
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Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.
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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
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Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet Union, for example. That means if profits are booked and earned and taxed in Cyprus, they are not taxed again in the other country.
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Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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I am going to begin now a practice of not making recommendations on specific tax and spending proposals.
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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.
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I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.
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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
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Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
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We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
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I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.
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Mr. Crafts' report was nothing but an accounting exercise. It doesn't show anything about proportionality or uniformity of the property tax system in New Hampshire.
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We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.
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I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor’s visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don’t have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.
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High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.
