Lloyd Doggett Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

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

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

Since the lobbyists and lawyers for the rich are so good at these things, I think they can avoid any increased tax rate so I would have a minimum tax.

One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr.

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

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

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

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

It’s not easy to get rid of tax loopholes. The reason they are there is that people wanted them there.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

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

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

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