Funny Tax Quotes

These are some funny quotes about Taxes and taxation like income tax and IRS


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, subsidise it
~ Ronald Reagan

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
~ Thomas Robert Dewar

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the Income Tax. The second hardest is inheritance Tax.
~ Albert Einstein

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
~ F. J. Raymond

People who complain about paying their income tax can be divided into two types: men and women.
~ anonymous


A tax loophole is "something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.'
~Russell B. Long

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

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids.
~Harvey Mackay

What's the difference between a tax auditor and a rottweiler? A rottweiler eventually lets go.
~ anonymous

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
~Douglas Adams

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
~Bill Vaughan

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
~Chris Rock

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~Arthur C. Clarke

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
~Herbert Spencer

The current tax code is a daily mugging
~ Ronald Reagan

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin
~ Mark Twain

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
~ Dan Bennett

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle
~ Winston Churchill

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Plato