Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Tax Deductible, That's What You Are: Steven Zelin

"Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity" -- Steven Zelin, the singing CPA to the tune of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable"

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Filing Tax Extension & Belated Mothers Day Gifts

"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten." -- Lord Bramwell

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Cheerfully Paying Taxes: God Loves Happy Fools

"If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!" -- John Andrew Holmes

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Tax Time: First Get Organized, then Commit Suicide

"It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta." -- Dave Barry

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The World's Best Fiction is Written for the IRS

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." -- Herman Wouk

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Boston Tea Party to Form 1040ez, a Taxing History

"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation." -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Rockefeller to IRS: No Taxes Owed But I'll Kindly Pay

"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart." -- David Rockefeller

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Cogitation is Taxing, but is Never Taxed

"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax." -- Charles F. Kettering

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Monday, April 07, 2008

Albert Einstein Didn't Understand Income Tax

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." -- Albert Einstein

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Rich Avoiding Taxes: George W. Bush Tax Quote

"The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you." -- George W. Bush

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Friday, April 04, 2008

Taxes on The Wages of Sin Mean Sleepiness

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." -- Paula Poundstone

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Taxes Quote from Thomas Paine: War Equals More Tax

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." -- Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Taxation Quote: Plucking the Goose of Money Feathers

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing." --Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Taxes Quote: Living Within Means to Fuel Excesses

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." -- Robert Half

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