“It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.” KnowsLastsThreeEasyDifficultTaxesPaidBillsCongressAccomplishAlternativesMinimumSimplification Author:Richard Neal
“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” ThinkingWayImportantBigsGovernmentDifficultIssuesInternetTaxesTaxationThink Big Author:Milton Friedman
“This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” WorldDifficultTaxesPhilosopherIncomeHardestMathematicianHardest ThingIncome TaxTax Day Author:Albert Einstein
“There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.” ThinkingWorldNeedsCountryUseJobsDifficultTermImagineTaxesToolsAgreeTradeWideCardsAround The WorldProvenVariationCapsBest JobSwedenCo2Tax System Author:Al Gore
“One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.” StatesProblemDifficultUnitedUnited StatesTaxesFairsBillsRateSolveDecadesSpotsOfferingTax SystemDifficult Problems Author:Donald T. Regan
“I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.” IfsMovingLawDifficultBreakImagineTaxesConsequenceAdvantageLettersCaughtHonestlyCaliforniaStrongestOne TimeEntitledSevereSomewhere ElsePerpetratorsTax Breaks Author:Michael Franzese
“I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.” PeopleWantKindMeanDifficultClassStruggleMiddlePromiseTaxesRaisesIncomeMiddle ClassAgendasGet Ahead Author:Hillary Clinton
“The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.” WorldDifficultTaxesComplicated Author:T.R. Reid
“Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.” DifficultTaxesCodeDifficult Times Author:Mike Pence