Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

About Herman Wouk

Portrait of Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk ( WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and...

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

—H. L. Mencken

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

—Albert Einstein

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime.

—Emma Goldman

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

—Douglas Adams

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