"A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut — it's a con."
— Tony Abbott
"You don't pay taxes ― they take taxes."
― Chris Rock
"If cigarette taxes are meant to discourage smoking, wouldn’t income taxes discourage working?"
"A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong."
— Mark Twain
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
– Denis Healey
"There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income."
— Will Rogers
“Children may be deductible, but they are still taxing.”
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
— Thomas Dewar
"The term “tax humor” is no doubt an oxymoron to many people; to the more cynical, it is an apt description of the entire tax code."
— John F. Lekel
"Taxes grow without rain."
- Jewish Proverb
“Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?”
– Peg Bracken
“They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money."
— Al Capone
“Trying to do your own taxes is like a do-it-yourself mugging.”
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein
“I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.”
— Douglas Adams
“For every tax problem, there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated-and wrong.”
"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged."
- Roger Jones
[on filing for tax returns] "This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher."
- Albert Einstein
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
- Mark Twain
"It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta."
— Dave Barry
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
- Robert A. Heinlein
“I put all my money into taxes. They’re the only thing that’s sure to go up!”
"Death, taxes, and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
― Margaret Mitchell
“The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.”
"If you don’t drink, smoke, or drive a car, you’re a tax evader."
– Thomas S Foley
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
- Herman Wouk
“The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.”
– Bill Vaughan
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
- Barry Goldwater
"The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians."
— Steve Forbes
"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
“People that cheat on their taxes truly disgust me. This is not the world I want to raise my 27 dependents in.”
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream”
– Bill Murray
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
- Will Rogers
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
- Will Rogers
"Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay."
- Milton Friedman
"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
- Fred Allen
“I love America, but I can’t spend the whole year here. I can’t afford the taxes.”
— Mick Jagger
"A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it."
- Ann Landers
"Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled."
— Dan Quayle
“Tax day is the day that ordinary Americans send their money to Washington, D.C., and wealthy Americans send their money to the Cayman Islands.”
– Jimmy Kimmel
“When it comes to taxes, there are two types of people. There are those that get it done early, also known as ‘psychopaths’, and then the rest of us.”
– Jimmy Kimmel
"I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money."
- Arthur Godfrey
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
- H. L. Mencken
"Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks."
- Bauvard
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
- Winston Churchill
"I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society."
— George W. Bush
“How many God-fearing, tax-paying, law-abiding men in Las Vegas does it take to light a bonfire? Both of them.”