Tax Evasion Quotes

• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  Denis Healey

  Wall, Business, Differences

  "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.

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• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humor, Acceptance, Reality

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• All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Love, War, Fairs

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• The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Two, Priorities

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• Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

  Jean Ziegler

  Country, Blood, Switzerland

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

  Tom Sharpe

  War, Taxes, Fairs

  Tom Sharpe (1984). “The throwback”, Vintage

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• We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Thinking, Everyday, Mountain

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Banking, Developing Countries

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

  Wesley Snipes

  Taxes, Evasion

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Challenges, Important

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Thinking, Bills, Crime

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

  George Osborne

  Target, Pay, Share

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• It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

  Paul Johnson

  Running, America, Leader

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

  George Papandreou

  Real, Cutting, Problem

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