The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
—Bill Vaughan
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
—Benjamin Franklin
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
—Will Rogers
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
—Douglas Adams
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
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.
—Tom Lehrer
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
—Albert Einstein
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
—H. L. Mencken
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
—Herman Wouk
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
—John Maynard Keynes
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
—Plato
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
—Ronald Reagan
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
—Joe E. Lewis
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
—Edith Sitwell
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
—David Lloyd George