Favorite Tax Quotes

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it. – Anonymous

Taxation, in reality is life.  If you know the position a person takes on taxes, you can tell their whole philosophy.  The tax code, once you get to know it, embodies all the essence of life: greed, politics power, goodness, charity.  – Sheldon S. Cohen, Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. – Luke 2:1

What is one really trying to do in the investment world?  Not pay the least taxes, although that may be a factor to be considered in achieving the end.  Means and end should not be confused, however, and the end is to come away with the largest after-tax rate of compound. – Warren Buffett

All the congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. – Walter B. Wriston

All taxes are a drag on economic growth.  It’s only a question of degree. – Alan Greenspan

It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.  – Anonymous

The incidence of taxation depends upon the substance of a transaction.  – Hugo Black

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.  – G.K. Chesterton

I’m putting all my money in taxes – it’s the only sure thing to go up.  –Anonyms

A fool and his money are soon parted.  It takes creative tax laws for the rest.  – Bob Thaves

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.  – Charles F. Kettering

American tax laws are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.  – Dave Barry

Systems of taxation need not achieve the ideal.  But the fact that the Constitution does not demand pure reason and is satisfied by practical reason does not justify unreason.  – Felix Frankfurter