What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902
The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax. – Raymond C. Scheppach
There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. – Martin D. Ginsburg
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. – Walter B. Wriston
IRS: an agency modeled after the revenue-raising concepts of the 19th-century economist, Jesse James. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax. – Max Baucus
