The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts. - Dave Barry
Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him. - T. Coleman Andrews, Former Commissioner of IRS
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. - Tom Anderson
Two years ago it was impossible to get through on the phone to the IRS. Now it's just hard to get through. That's progress. - Charles Rossotti, former IRS Commissioner
The term "tax humor" is no doubt an oxymoron to many people; to the more cynical, it is an apt description of the entire tax code. - John F. Iekel
Under the Freedom of Information Act, a man with a small business sent a request to the IRS asking if they had a file on him. The IRS wrote back, "There is now."
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke
Q: Why is a tax audit like a tornado? A: In the beginning there's a lot of screaming and in the end you lose your house.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. - Art Buchwald
When are we going to be allowed to list the government as a dependent?
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. - Vanya Cohen
I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes. - Mick Jagger
The Internal Revenue Code is about 10 times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news. - Don Rickles
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. - Mark Twain
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
