Quotable Quotes

• The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money. - IRS Auditor

• The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling - Paula Poundstone

• I hold in my hand 1,379 pages of tax simplification - Delbert L. Latta

• Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten. - Lord Bramwell

• This [preparing my tax return] is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. - Albert Einstein

• I owed the government $3,400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. - Sue Murphy

• There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. - Karl Marx

• Passive activity income does not include the following: Income from an activity that is not a passive activity. - IRS instructions to form 8582

• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes

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

• Noah must have taken into the ark two taxes, one male and one female. And they did multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals. - Will Rogers

• The term "tax humor" is no doubt an oxymoron to many people; to the more cynical, it is an apt description of the entire tax code. - John F. Lekel

• If Congress were to pass a " flat" tax...there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws - and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free... Dave Barry

• The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. - William Simon

• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants. - Elvis Presley

Copyright 1998
Steven L. Jager, CPA
An Accountancy Corporation