Alex Pareene Quotes

Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

You can close [tax] loopholes, but people will always find new ones.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.

There's always another loophole to get out of the tax code.

The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.

I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Politicians and economists figure out an elaborate system of tax and economic incentives and then every body else figures out a way to beat it

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.