Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

If every country tries to race towards the lowest [tax] rate, then in the end nobody gains. If you believe there should be no government at all, then fine. But if you believe some government is good, then you cannot have a system that erodes the tax base in all major countries.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

Ultimately, developing countries and groups like Oxfam want to see a new intergovernmental body on cooperation in tax matters under the auspices of the United Nations.

I do think corporations should pay their tax.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

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.

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

[Describing out tax system:] ... a disgrace to the human race.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

We demand a graduated income tax.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably.