Friday's Tax Quote - April 29, 2011

“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”

- Jonathan Swift

Friday's Tax Quote - April 15, 2011

“The taxing authority is an uninvited party to all contracts.”

- Myron S. Scholes, Mark A. Wolfson, Merle M. Erickson, Edward L. Maydew, and Terry J. Shevlin

Friday's Tax Quote - April 8, 2011

“[The federal income tax system is] a disgrace to the human race.”

- Jimmy Carter

Friday's Tax Quote - April 1, 2011

“The math of the late 1980’s was simple.  Any company that exchanged its equity for debt was immediately worth more, courtesy of the U.S. tax code.  And every company was thought to be ripe for such a maneuver.”

- Roger Lowenstein