Taxes quotes

“Children are hideous little creatures. Terrible, taxing burdens.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“When ya steal from the government, you're stealing from yourself, ya dumb ox.”
Judy Holliday - Billie Dawn

“Tax evasion is a crime. But tax avoidance, that's what put us in business. And the line between the two, we like to say, it's as thin as a jailhouse wall.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jürgen Mossack

“These guys are about as much fun as a tax audit.”

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“They're the police. Hey, your taxes are paying their salaries. We die, they gotta take a pay cut.”
Alan Ruck - Stephens

“I suffer from what used to be called Sir tax. A knighthood inflates the cost of living beyond belief.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“All right, boy, I guess you got a reward coming. Twenty-five thousand dollars. Or, if you need home furnishings, I can give you a line of credit at any of my stores. In fact, that's the way I'd rather handle it. Taxreasons.”
Trey Wilson - Nathan Arizona, Sr.

“- Bryce Arbogast: You didn't pay taxes.
- Nina Brewster: On stolen money?
- Bryce Arbogast: I didn't hear that.”
Christopher McDonald - Bryce Arbogast
Queen Latifah - Nina Brewster

“That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.”
Bud Abbott

“- Leo Getz: This is the best part, okay? You make a tax deduction on interest payments you don't even make! Am I an innovator? Am I a genius?
- Martin Riggs: You're a swindler!
- Roger Murtaugh: Cheat!
- Leo Getz: Everyone cheats a little bit... look at the Pentagon!”

Joe Pesci - Leo Getz
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“Because I'm a resident of England, Britannia taxes my Hollywood income as well. I bought a house at Regent's Park so I pay property taxes on that too. My agent gets 10 percent, incidentals account for another 10 percent and living expenses for 25 percent. So there's always a deficit. No wonder Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Oberon

“- Mary: Tax collectors are coming around here taking everything. We'll have nothing for the winter.
- Newton Knight: Girls, do you know how to shoot one of these?”

Kerry Cahill - Mary
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“A man must know the right occasion to indulge in tax evasion.”
Manning Redwood - Harry Weiss

“Old flames are like old tax returns. Put them in the file cabinet for three years, then you cut them loose.”
Josef Sommer - Peter Lassiter

“People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their taxdollars.”
George Miliotis Miller

“I don't cheat on my taxes, you can't cheat on something you never committed to.”
Woody Harrelson - Dave Brown

“The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.”
Jon Lovitz

“- Mark Van Doren: Why don't you just put it in the bank Charlie? That's what I've always done with my prizemoney.
- Charles Van Doren: It's just, you don't understand dad, it's, there are all sorts of tax implications.
- Mark Van Doren: You think I can't understand the concept of taxes.
- Charles Van Doren: At this level it's a bit more...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren

“If you tell the government they will take forty percent of it. Forty percent! Do you know how much that is? That's nearly all of it.”

Lewis McGibbon - Anthony

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is: a) whatever the IRS says, b) a smartlawyer, c) ten years in prison, d) all of the above?”
Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar

“If we're gonna spend taxdollars, our taxdollars, to help people break the law in a safer way, why don't we have a designated drunk-driver lane on the highway too?”
Andrew Garfield - Todd Hayes

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn't that enough?”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present

“- Will Parker: Are you expecting anybody?
- Joe Heiser: Well, it might be the IRS.
- Will Parker: Maybe its the Australians coming to spy on us!”

Matthew Modine - Will Parker
Stellan Skarsgård - Joe Heiser

“I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't fair, is it?”
Robin Williams - Doctor Cozy Carlisle

“- Prosecutor: War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
- Chicolini: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
- Prosecutor: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
- Chicolini: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!”
Charles Middleton - Prosecutor
Chico Marx - Chicolini