Irs famous quotes
05-13-2025
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
-- Billy Joel -
Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.
-- Charles Rangel -
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.
-- Cleta Mitchell -
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.
-- Dave Barry -
Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents
-- Dennis Prager -
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
-- Dr. Dre -
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.
-- Edward V. Long -
Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.
-- Frank Luntz -
Le de s ir de la prie'Â re est de j a'Â Â une prie'Â re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
-- Harold H. Greene -
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.
-- Jacob G. Hornberger -
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
-- Janis Ian -
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.
-- Jay Leno -
Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.
-- Jay Leno -
The IRS said today anyone with a refund coming from their 2001 taxes will lose it if they don't pick it up by April 15th. If it is more then three years they will just keep it. How come it doesn't work that way with back taxes?
-- Jay Leno -
I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS.
-- Jay Leno -
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
-- Jay Leno -
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
-- Jessica Cutler -
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
-- Jessica Savitch -
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.
-- Jim Bridenstine -
While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.
-- Jim Cooper -
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
-- Laurie Anderson -
IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
-- Lawrence Wright -
I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.
-- Lois Lerner -
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
-- Melissa Bean -
Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
-- Michael Moriarty -
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.
-- Paul Laxalt -
I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress
-- Tom Coburn -
All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.
-- Walter E. Williams -
Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.
-- Conan O'Brien -
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.
-- James Traficant -
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.
-- Ron Barrier -
When you come into the world you have nothing... when you leave you have nothing... and in between there's the IRS.
-- Bob Thaves -
While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.
-- Charles J. Givens -
Most people don't know this, but if you settle a debt for less than the amount you owed, you are potentially responsible for taxes on the forgiven debt. Look at it this way: You received goods and services for the full amount of debt, but you're only paying for a portion of it - sometimes less than 50%. Anything more than $600 is generally considered taxable, but the IRS will sometimes waive the tax if you can prove that your assets were less than your liabilities when the debt was settled.
-- Jean Chatzky
