IRS Quotes

The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you‘d have an uprising.

I don’t want the IRS banging down my door.

Let’s abolish the IRS, let’s eliminate income tax, let’s eliminate corporate tax, let’s balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There’s a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it’s automatically terrorism.

When you take a look at how the IRS treats foreign currency, bitcoin doesn’t have the same taxation regime. Foreign currency gains and losses generally are taxed as ordinary income.

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

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.

We’re going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There’s no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world‘s most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect taxes, but surely know how to misspend the funds.

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That’s about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It’s not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

I voted in support of H.R. 5445, the 21st Century IRS Act, which requires the IRS to place more taxpayer services online.

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.

Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don’t think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don’t file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That’s not been done.

Washington Democrats see the IRS’ overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. That’s it. I don’t want those people knockin’ on my door, man.

Yeah I guess I don’t want to end up being one of those stories where the guy ends up spending more than he has and owes money to the IRS and stuff like that. I just want to be able to take care of my family and live modestly.

‘Tax Collector‘ was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens – four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That’s why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

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.

It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

Whether you’re a veteran seeking assistance with benefits, or you need help with Social Security or the IRS, we’re here to serve you and we’ll do everything we can to help.

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

Isn’t it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

IRS rules generally prohibit acts of ‘self-dealing,’ in which a charity‘s leaders use the nonprofit group’s money to buy things for themselves.

I won‘t stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans’ private financial transactions.

My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn’t need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

In many cases, Obama’s exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama.

Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven‘t reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You’d feel like you’ve given up your sovereignty, wouldn’t you?

At tax time, people are going to say, ‘Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn’t get away with that.’ But that’s effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It’s not like they’re carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone’s door and say, ‘You’re evading your taxes.’

People have seen me fighting everything from ‘Fast and Furious‘ to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Obama’s IRS is not the IRS I’ve ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.