Taxes And Taxation Quotations

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.

There are plenty of cities interested in the Chargers, but ultimately you have to separate out that external noise. We have running room this year to come up with a deal that keeps the Chargers here and protect the taxpayers at the same time.

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

I wish to assure the French government and people that their taxpayers' funds will be used in a diligent, transparent and accountable manner.

If they refuse, in my opinion, Chairman Barnett should remove them. The employees and taxpayers have suffered enough.

If a mistake was made, we want to tell people about it. The good news is that the program is going to cost less money to taxpayers than we thought, and we hope it signals that evacuees have found places to go.

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

I think taxpayers will say we need to take care of people and we shouldn't walk away from people with insurance policies,

It is a message. We are not interested in removing the sales tax on food.

I struggle with the burden we are going to put on the taxpayers.

It allows us to get that cleanup done at no cost to the taxpayers.

That was a rule that was changed probably for the convenience of the taxpayers.

That's twice the cost and for the taxpayers. That's not right. If you're going to do business with Mississippi folks and the law says you should do it then that should happen,

You can go back years and place blame, but the bottom line is that we have a budget before us, and we need to be responsible to the taxpayers.

Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

The problem will become much worse. To call upon taxpayers - most of whom don't have defined-benefit pensions - to pay for the benefits of those who do would be fundamentally unfair.

The only reason we got onto this case was because of a lucky tip. We could have launched this case a year earlier. It sure would make our jobs easier and save the taxpayers a lot of money if we had access to their information.

Every year we receive a number of outlandish claims from tax cheats: The Sixteenth Amendment concerning the power to lay and collect income taxes was never ratified, wages are not income, and other false arguments. Don?t count on it. They were thrown out of court back then and there going to be thrown out of court in the future.

There's probably going to be about $100 million spent to buy the property ... for all the roads and everything that goes into that. Guess who has to pay for that? It's going to be us, the taxpayers. We're going to pay that money.

The taxpayers are not adequately represented in this thing.

The supervisors here don't answer to anybody, ... They come back and don't answer to the taxpayers, and they don't come back and answer to the city's administration to explain what's going on.

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations. The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations, ... The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

People can take simple steps to stamp out waste, such as non-taxpayers filling in a simple form, or married couples making sure they use up both tax-free personal allowances.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

A few obsessed government officials have spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money in an attempt to control a governor's election, ... The people of Alabama aren't going to let that happen, and I'm not going to let it happen.

The bottom line: Taxpayers will pay about the same.

That openness comes with a cost. If you could have gotten the property at $100,000 less, you would have saved taxpayers $100,000. The cure would be the public would not have a right to know, and that's wrong.

This bill roots out excess lender subsidies in the student loan program while increasing student access to loans. It's a win-win for students and taxpayers.

There's an appetite for tax reform. Until you see what it is.

A tax system is best if it can be kept as simple as it needs to be to satisfy all its various purposes. This means that it can be clearly understood and is most likely to meet various Government objectives and be straightforward for both individuals and businesses our research shows that taxpayers are being swamped by a barrage of tax legislation.

It's a best practice for the taxpayers of Pittsburgh. We want the highest level of service. It makes us more effective and productive.

It's a waste of taxpayers' money to fund a pilot project. We've already had one called the attorney general's pro bono project. It's demonstrated that prosecutors in magistrate courts work.

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that ''Damn'' and ''Taxes: are two separate words.

The new rule is much more friendly to taxpayers. Only sales of more than $500,000 for married couples and $250,000 for single people have to be reported. So you don't need to keep records unless you think you home may sell for more than that amount.

That is a burden not just on people struggling to make ends meet, it becomes a burden on taxpayers, it becomes a burden on communities, and Wal-Mart sits back and counts their billions.

Economic development consists of who can give away the taxpayers' money faster.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

It's certainly what the Internal Revenue Service wants, because of the efficiency and lack of manpower it takes to process returns and it allows taxpayers the opportunity to get their money back sooner.

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

These taxpayers have gone all year without the money money they unnecessarily overpaid to the government to begin with and suddenly they are in a hurry to get it back. But even a cash advance on a credit card is more attractive than a RAL at these rates if they are that hard up for cash.

Anyone receiving tax advice should verify the motives and qualifications of those giving it, even those claiming to be charitable organizations.

The federal prescription drug plan was touted as a measure to help seniors and save the states money. Instead, it's failing our most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens, and it's failing the taxpayers of Kentucky.

The costs of an annuity are a humongous drag on a portfolio. You add in the ordinary income-tax rate on withdrawals, and it's very hard to make it work out.

If somebody is really serious about getting rid of peafowl then the rest of the taxpayers of the city should not be responsible for that service. I don't think we've had a significant number of residential complaints around the city. Maybe we are overreacting.

If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

The environmental and economic costs of wind power will always keep it as a marginal energy source unless it becomes more heavily subsidized by taxpayers than it already is.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.