“Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.” WritingWellsHomeHappensLawTaxesOfficeClaimsComplainingYesterdayThanksExpensesMarijuanaTax DayHome OfficePhish Author:Conan O'Brien
“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.” MindWarRealMatterStatesForceCommunityDifferencesOpinionModernCrimeTheoryHabitTaxesClaimsAbsolutesPropertyDemocratSizeCommunistMonopolyDisobedienceFascistsMaking Peace Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know your rights under the law and possible tax deductions -- and to claim every one of them.” KnowsLawRightsCitizensTaxesClaimsObligationDeductionsTax System Author:Donald Alexander
“Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.” TwoCertainBreakTaxesClaimsYesterdayEntitledChinsIrsObeseTax Breaks Author:Conan O'Brien
“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.” PeopleLifeParentBornCompanyTaxesFairsClaimsPropertyInheritanceNot FairLater In LifeOffshoreDomsInheritance Tax Author:George Osborne
“It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.” ShouldStatesGovernmentAbleUsedPayOne ThingHigherTaxesEssentialsWeaponsClaimsRateBurdenShouldersIncomeCodeWealthyBlasphemyArbiterGovernment Service Author:David Limbaugh
“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.” PeopleIfsMenShouldWellsSaidUseAbleGreaterRegretGeniusTaxesUnderstoodClaimsIncomeDefinedIncome TaxI RegretCastes Author:Otto Weininger
“If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.” IfsChildrenDreamPayCareersGreaterTaxesClaimsOur ChildrenStartingBombsAmerican DreamPayrollTime BombPayroll TaxTicking TimeTicking Time Bombs Author:John McCain
“My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.” WorldIdeasDoneBigsNamesSecretAchieveInspireCitizensTaxesAuthorityClaimsStructureDollarsRevolutionaryQuestioningBehalfWebsiteParadigmAssessmentNsaBig BusinessInspire OthersSnowdenTax DollarsRevolutionary IdeasAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.” IfsKnowsWarWealthTrumpTaxesClaimsClintonIraqPredictableAmazing ThingsIraq WarTease Author:James Fallows
“I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.” GivingPositionTaxesOrganizationClaimsSouthReviewsSouth AfricaDonorsDeductions Author:Nelson Mandela
“Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.” PeopleWealthTrumpTaxesClaimsDemocraticIncome Author:Michael Hudson
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” YearsGovernmentCenturyTaxesYears AgoClaimsExperimentsIncomeSocialistTwentieth CenturyIncome TaxTariffs Author:Alan Keyes
“I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.” PeoplePresidentRichCuttingTaxesBenefitsWeaponsMassLowsCriticismDestructionClaimsResponseIraqHearingAll TimeRacistSuggestionsLiedWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionKatrinaAll Time Low Author:George W. Bush
“But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsMeanFamilyBreakClearTaxesLet MeClaimsIncreaseRepeatsMassiveRollingDimesTax BreaksTax Increases Author:Barack Obama
“By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.” LevelsClassCuttingMiddleTaxesClaimsDemocratRateMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:John Podhoretz
“Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.” BelieveIdeasMatterDreamBigsGovernmentCoursesAcceptingTaxesClaimsNo Matter WhatCriticsOur FutureFloridaBig GovernmentHigh Taxes Author:Marco Rubio
“If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.” IfsNeedsCompanyTaxesClaimsMaking MoneyFirmEquityLoopholesPrivate Equity Author:James Surowiecki