FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT TAX EVASION

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.” – Denis Healey

“You can only get rich by intentionally evading taxes or by working for the government.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein

“Every tax is a discouragement, every rebate an encouragement, every evasion a safety-valve.” – John Buchan

“Nobody likes taxes, but they’ve been around forever. Taxes date back all the way to the invention of money.” – Rick Perry

“The point is not to evade taxes, but to lower them.” – Ronald Reagan

“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” – Mark Twain

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.” – Jean-Baptiste Colbert

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.” – Edmund Burke

“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.” – Barry Goldwater

“A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is a tax deduction.” – Russell B. Long

“Why pay more taxes than necessary?” – John F. Kennedy QUOTES FOR FATHER DAUGHTER

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.” – Herman Wouk

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.” – John Maynard Keynes

“It is legal to evade taxes. It is illegal to avoid them. The difference is that evasion occurs when someone knowingly commits fraud. Avoidance, on the other hand, occurs when someone plans ahead to minimize their tax liability within the confines of the law.” – Will Rogers

“The rich don’t pay taxes, they invest for the greater good.” – Shirley Temple

“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” – John Marshall

“Taxation is the art of plucking the feathers without too much squawking.” – Aldous Huxley

“Taxation is robbery based on intimidation and force.” – Mark Skousen

“The higher the taxes, the fewer the number of people willing to work hard to earn money, leading to a weakened economy.” – Thomas Sowell

“Evasion is the mark of an unstable mind.” – John F. Kennedy

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“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