Tax planning is totally legal and the right of every American.

"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs so as to make taxes as low as possible.

Everybody does so, rich or poor, and do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more taxes than the law demands.

Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions."

- Justice Learned Hand
of the United States Supreme Court

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

-- Unknown

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

-- F.J. Raymond

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

-- From a Washington Post word contest

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

-- Unknown

This is the season of the year when we discover that we owe most of our success to Uncle Sam.

-- The Wall Street Journal

I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried but they wanted cash.

-- Anonymous

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

-- Fletcher Knebel

American workers spend more of their day working to pay taxes than they do to feed, cloths, and house their families.

-- The Tax Foundation

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

-- Jean B. Colbert

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money.

-- Revenue Auditor

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

-- Fran Lebowitz Social Studies, 1981

I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

-- Arthur Godfrey

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody -- one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

-- Earl Wilson

I have something my tax doctor calls 'narcotaxis.' Within 20 seconds of hearing someone launch into an explanation of tax laws, my eyes become glassy, my body loses all feeling, and I go into a shallow coma.

-- Russell Baker commenting
in column "Sunday Observer,"
the New York Times (4-19-87)

The chief deduction most people make from their income tax is that government costs too darned much.

-- Walt Streightiff

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

-- William E. Simon

Death and taxes are both certain . . . But death isn't annual.

-- Anonymous

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. 'At least,' as one man said, 'there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets'.

-- Erwin N. Griswold

People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.

-- Unknown

The tax which will be paid for education is not more than the thousand part of what will be paid if we leave the people in ignorance.

-- President Thomas Jefferson

It's a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich--and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

-- John Grisham

I have trouble reconciling my net income with my gross habits.

-- Errol Flynn

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

-- Dave Barry "Sweating Out Taxes"

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

-- Dave Barry

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.

-- Farmer's Almanac

The taxpayer--that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

-- President Ronald W. Reagan

The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.

-- Edward J. Gurney

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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

-- Albert Einstein

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

-- Bumper Sticker

State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent.

-- Evan Leibovitch

Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way.

-- Jerold Rochwald

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

-- Herbert Hoover

Death: to stop paying taxes suddenly.

-- Unknown