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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
-Proverb
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
-Proverb
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
-Bernard Berenson
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.
-Peg Bracken
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.
-Wernher Von Braun
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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
-Art Buchwald
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
-Edmund Burke
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
-Edmund Burke
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Read my lips: no new taxes.
-George Bush
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
-Tiberius Caesar
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
-Mortimer Caplan
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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
-Randolph Churchill
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Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
-Nonnee Coan
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
-William Cobbett
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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 possible amount of hissing.
-J. B. Colbert
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The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity. The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute. They do not support any privileged class; they do not need to maintain great military forces; they ought not to be burdened with a great array of public employees. They are not required to make any contribution to Government expenditures except that which they voluntarily assess upon themselves through the action of their own representatives. Whenever taxes become burdensome a remedy can be applied by the people; but if they do not act for themselves, no one can be very successful in acting for them.
-Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural address, March 4, 1925
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
-Noel Coward
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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
-James Dale Davidson
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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
-Lord Thomas Dewar
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
-Prince Philip Edinburgh
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
-Albert Einstein
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My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it
-Andrew Fletcher
From the minutes of the Scottish parliament of 1703
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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
-Benjamin Franklin
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
-Shelby Friedman
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Books about Taxation
