Famous Tax Quotes - Famous Quotes about Taxes
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
- Daniel Webster
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Ever wonder why the IRS calls it Form 1040? Because for every $50 that you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
- Anonymous
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
- Milton Friedman
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I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
- Roger Jones
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I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
- Milton Berle
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is—I could be just as proud for half the money.
- Arthur Godfrey
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- Douglas Adams
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
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IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
- Anonymous
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Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of "May Day!"?
- Rob Knauerhase
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- Edward Abbey
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
- Andy Rooney
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
- Herman Wouk
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
- Bill Vaughan
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
- Leona Helmsley
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Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)
- Michael Faraday
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