“Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.”
— Evan Esar
“The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.”
– Bill Vaughan
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
"If you don’t drink, smoke, or drive a car, you’re a tax evader."
– Thomas S Foley
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
- Barry Goldwater
"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
- Will Rogers
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
- H. L. Mencken
"A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong."
— Mark Twain
“I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can’t get killed by a blank?”
– Milton Berle
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
– Denis Healey
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
— Thomas Dewar
“I figured out why Uncle Sam wears such a tall hat. It comes in handy when he passes it around.”
— Soupy Sales
“For every tax problem, there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated-and wrong.”
"A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it."
- Ann Landers
"A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut — it's a con."
— Tony Abbott