What famous people have said about taxes…
Business may pass on taxes.
--Stanley F. Reed
Only little people pay taxes.
--Leona Helmsley (attributed)
Never let the tax tail wag the economic dog.
--Laura Peebles
An Englishman's home is his tax haven.
--Economist Magazine
There can be no taxation without misrepresentation.
--J.B. Handelsman
An economy breathes through its tax loopholes.
--Barry Bracewell-Milnes
Today is the first day of the rest of your taxable year.
--Jeffery L. Yablon
We have a tax code that favors those with the best accountants.
--Shane Keats
The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.
--Lord Denning
If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.
--Thomas S. Foley
It is sinful to deceive the government regarding taxes and duties.
--The Talmud
It is seldom given to mortal man to feel superior to a tax lawyer.
--Anthony C. Amsterdam
Who will protect the integrity of the tax law if the tax lawyers won't?
--Christopher Bergin
Sixty-four percent of women attorneys think that tax lawyers make undesirable dates.
--Daniel Dolan
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
--Denis Healey
The many small stockholders cannot afford professional counsel or evasion devices.
--Robert H. Jackson
Just let 'em feel that you can save 'em something on taxes and nobody will keep you out.
--Warren Buffett
From a tax point of view you're better off raising horses or cattle than children.
--Patricia R. Schroeder
A dog who thinks he is man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
--Fran Lebowitz
Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them.
--Edward A. Filene
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
--John Maynard Keynes
It scarcely lies in the mouth of the taxpayer who plays with fire to complain of burnt fingers.
--Lord Greene
The First Rule of Practicing Tax Law: If someone has to go to jail, make sure it's the client.
--Fred Drasner
[Game Show Host:] You're a genius.
[Contestant:] No, I'm a tax attorney.
--Regis Philbin and Bill MacDonald
It's time we tell the bar associations and the IRS to shove their opinions up their cash cows.
--James Traficant
Those who have large estates and watchful lawyers will find ways of minimizing these tax burdens.
--Robert H. Jackson
Tax lawyers spend about a third of their time converting ordinary income into capital gain.
--Walter Blum (attributed)
[A] society which turns so many of its best and brightest into tax lawyers may be doing something
wrong.
--Hoffman F. Fuller
[Headline:] Tax Planning May Be Futile
--Albert B. Crenshaw
In America, in 1913, an income tax law was passed and the rich have been devising tax dodging
rackets ever since.
--Elliot Paul
[I]n the area of taxation, it is often difficult to determine where business ends and the law
begins . . . .
--Ellen Bree Burns
