Paul Ryan Quotes

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

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

The tax code is 100 years old and it looks like it.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

The Internal Revenue Code is like a tire that has been patched over and over…. At this point however, it is more patch than tire.

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

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.