Category: Other - Famous Tax Quotes

1. Famous Tax Quotes - A Slender Reed

   September 27, 2024
2. Famous Tax Quotes - Does Not Pass the Smell Test

   July 16, 2024
3. Famous Tax Quotes - Shoebox Method

   June 10, 2024
4. Famous Tax Quotes - The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating

   April 21, 2024
5. Famous Tax Quotes - A Conjurer’s Circle

   February 20, 2024
6. Famous Tax Quotes - Must Timely File Using The Best Information Available

   February 11, 2024
7. Famous Tax Quotes - Insurance Premiums Were Nonsense

   February 4, 2024
8. Famous Tax Quotes - A Bundle of Sticks

   December 17, 2023
9. Famous Tax Quotes - Tweedledum and Tweedledee

   November 19, 2023
10. Famous Tax Quotes - Congress Does Not Hide Elephants In Mouseholes

    November 18, 2023
11. Famous Tax Quotes - Hard To See Duress Without Any IRS Interaction

    October 15, 2023
12. Famous Tax Quotes - Confusing the Terms “Petitioner” and “Respondent”

    May 19, 2023
13. Famous Tax Quotes - Bargaining For Tax Benefits

    April 19, 2023
14. Famous Tax Quotes - Tax Laws Should Be Intelligible

    April 4, 2023
15. Famous Tax Quotes - The Most Honorable People I Have Ever Dealt With

    March 18, 2023
16. Famous Tax Quotes - Self-serving, Unreliable, Unverified, and Contradicted Testimony

    March 11, 2023
17. Famous Tax Quotes - “To tautologize, section 741 applies only where it applies”

    February 17, 2023
18. Famous Tax Quotes - One Cannot Distribute What One Does Not Have

    July 28, 2022
19. Famous Tax Quotes - Tax Legislation Is Not A Promise

    July 25, 2022
20. Famous Tax Quotes - Turning Square Corners

    June 5, 2022
21. Famous Tax Quotes - Congress Did Not Want To Deal With Citizens As If They Were Still In The Nursery

    March 18, 2022
22. Famous Tax Quotes - Taxes Are What We Pay For Civilized Society

    August 14, 2021
23. Famous Tax Quotes - A Detour to Crazy Town

    May 17, 2021
24. Famous Tax Quotes - Two-Way Street: Downhill for the IRS & Uphill for the Taxpayer

    April 27, 2021
25. Famous Tax Quotes - Death May Escape the Woes of Life . . .

    February 20, 2021
26. Famous Tax Quotes - Memory Dulled by a Penitentiary Term Served

    November 3, 2020
27. Famous Tax Quotes - Fictional Corporate Camouflage

    October 25, 2020
28. Famous Tax Quotes - No Rational Person . . .

    July 29, 2020
29. Famous Tax Quotes - Backdating of Documents

    July 28, 2020
30. Famous Tax Quotes - Born in Generosity; Debauched in Avarice

    June 30, 2020
31. Famous Tax Quotes - Perhaps Congress Just Stubbed Its Toe

    December 17, 2019
32. Famous Tax Quotes - Penalties For Hardheaded Persistence

    December 5, 2019
33. Famous Tax Quotes - Like white asparagus or a blood orange

    December 3, 2019
34. Famous Tax Quotes - The Regulations Barely Rocked The Statutory Boat

    October 24, 2019
35. Famous Tax Quotes - Forming HoldCo To Acquire Target Is Not Unusual

    August 7, 2019
36. Famous Tax Quotes - A taxpayer’s own documents

    August 4, 2019
37. Famous Tax Quotes - New Batboy Changing the Outcome of the World Series

    October 4, 2018
38. Famous Tax Quotes - That’s How The Cookie Crumbles

    September 22, 2018
39. Famous Tax Quotes - IRS To Enforce Tax Laws; Not To Maximize Tax Receipts

    May 22, 2018
40. Famous Tax Quotes - “One Big Wallet”

    April 14, 2018
41. Famous Tax Quotes - Plodding Through A Tax Court Opinion

    September 24, 2017
42. Famous Tax Quotes - Almost Indistinguishable Lines

    September 18, 2017
43. Famous Tax Quotes - Anticlimactic Discoveries

    August 24, 2017
44. Famous Tax Quotes - An Unsubstantiated Presumption

    July 6, 2017
45. Famous Tax Quotes - Careful / Close / Extra / Heightened / Rigid / Special / Strict Scrutiny For Related Party Transactions

    June 9, 2017
46. Famous Tax Quotes - Blind Guesses Are Not Good Faith Estimates

    March 30, 2017
47. Famous Tax Quotes - Lower Court Overruling a Higher Court

    March 28, 2017
48. Famous Tax Quotes - Caligula & Taxes

    February 20, 2017
49. Famous Tax Quotes - Congress Does Not Legislate in Logic Puzzles

    January 27, 2017
50. Famous Tax Quotes - Source of Income When Business Is Begun In One Country And Ended In Another

    October 19, 2016
51. Famous Tax Quotes - Clapping With One Hand

    August 26, 2016
52. Famous Tax Quotes - King Minos’ Labyrinth

    August 3, 2016
53. Famous Tax Quotes - “Tax Language”

    May 19, 2016
54. Famous Tax Quotes - Where to Draw the Line

    January 29, 2016
55. Famous Tax Quotes - The Basic Structure of the Internal Revenue Code

    October 5, 2015
56. Famous Tax Quotes - Muddled Tax Return Reporting

    April 2, 2015
57. Famous Tax Quotes - Residence - As Many Colors As Joseph's Coat

    January 1, 2015
58. Famous Tax Quotes - A Rose is a Rose is a . . .

    December 13, 2014
59. Famous Tax Quotes - Taxing Citizens by Reason of Citizenship

    October 3, 2014
60. Famous Tax Quotes - "Maxims" & "Minims"

    September 28, 2014
61. Famous Tax Quotes - “Laughable” Test - All Caps Spelling

    September 10, 2014
62. Famous Tax Quotes - From the Brow of Zeus

    August 15, 2014
63. Famous Tax Quotes - Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

    February 22, 2014
64. Famous Tax Quotes - Hiding the Pea

    February 20, 2014
65. Famous Tax Quotes - Expatriation is a Serious Act

    February 16, 2014
66. Famous Tax Quotes - Morass of United States Tax Laws

    December 17, 2013
67. Famous Tax Quotes - Earnings and Profits

    December 15, 2013
68. Famous Tax Quotes - Precedent

    December 1, 2013
69. Famous Tax Quotes - If Rube Goldberg Had Been a Tax Accountant

    November 15, 2013
70. Famous Tax Quotes - The Form of a Transaction Can Control Tax Consequences

    October 22, 2013
71. Famous Tax Quotes - The IRM Holds No Legal Significance

    October 11, 2013
72. Famous Tax Quotes - [Un]Comfortable Degree of Accuracy

    September 22, 2013
73. Famous Tax Quotes - Double Taxation Cannot Always Be Avoided

    August 30, 2013
74. Famous Tax Quotes - "Bureaucrats"

    August 28, 2013
75. Famous Tax Quotes - Separate Entity Doctrine

    August 28, 2013
76. Famous Tax Quotes - Accounting Firm "Screw Up"

    September 5, 2012
77. Famous Tax Quotes - Same Boat But Another Ocean

    February 5, 2012
78. Famous Tax Quotes - Transactions Between Related Parties Merit Extra Scrutiny

    June 23, 2011
79. Famous Tax Quotes - Valuation Is Not an Exact Science

    March 22, 2011
80. Famous Tax Quotes - Very definitely . . . probably

    March 17, 2011
81. Famous Tax Quotes - Congress Can "label a thing income and tax it"

    March 9, 2011
82. Famous Tax Quotes - Seduced by a Siren Song of Symmetry

    February 18, 2011
83. Famous Tax Quotes - Drawing Lines

    February 10, 2011
84. Famous Tax Quotes - Too Good To Be True . . .

    December 28, 2010
85. Famous Tax Quotes - A “Hat Problem”

    December 27, 2010
86. Famous Tax Quote #37 - Is Fido a dog?

    December 7, 2010
87. Famous Tax Quote #36 - Differences in Degree vs. Differences in Kind

    November 11, 2010
88. Famous Tax Quote #35 - Foresight and Planning

    October 31, 2010
89. Famous Tax Quote #34 - A Word is Not a Crystal

    September 24, 2010
90. Famous Tax Quote #33 - A melody is more than the notes

    September 20, 2010
91. Famous Tax Quote #32 - Change in the tax laws is a way of life

    September 3, 2010
92. Famous Tax Quote #31 - If Pigs Had Wings, They Could Fly

    August 25, 2010
93. Famous Tax Quote #30 - A Judicial Moon

    August 17, 2010
94. Famous Tax Quote #29 - Taxing Corporate Distributions

    July 4, 2010
95. Famous Tax Quote #28 - Purpose of Subpart F Income

    June 27, 2010
96. Famous Tax Quote #27 - All of life is a risk

    June 13, 2010
97. Famous Tax Quote #26 - Business Purpose / Economic Substance

    June 6, 2010
98. Famous Tax Quote #25 - Broker vs. Dealer

    May 30, 2010
99. Famous Tax Quote #24 - Name for a Partnership With No Business Purpose

    May 23, 2010
100. Famous Tax Quote #23 - Motives Immaterial in a Code § 368(a)(1)(D) Reorganization

     May 16, 2010
101. Famous Tax Quote #22 - Redemption as a Step in a Reorganization

     May 11, 2010
102. Famous Tax Quote #21 - The Words Dance Before My Eyes

     May 2, 2010
103. Famous Tax Quote #20 - Tax Reduction Is Not Evil

     February 10, 2010
104. Famous Tax Quote #19 - How many legs does a dog have?

     February 3, 2010
105. Famous Tax Quote #18 - "Dummy" Corporations

     December 16, 2009
106. Famous Tax Quote #17 - Taxation depends on actual events

     December 8, 2009
107. Famous Tax Quote #16 - Taxation is Not Cuneiform.

     December 5, 2009
108. Famous Tax Quote #15 - Simple Expedient of Drawing Up Papers

     December 2, 2009
109. Famous Tax Quote #14 - Mere Formalisms

     November 16, 2009
110. Famous Tax Quote #13 - Anticipatory Assignment

     November 13, 2009
111. Famous Tax Quote #12 - Income Is Taxed to The Earner

     November 4, 2009
112. Famous Tax Quote #11 - Exalting Form Over Substance

     September 4, 2009
113. Famous Tax Quote #10 - Meaningless Gesture

     September 2, 2009
114. Famous Tax Quote #9 - Origin of All Events Test

     August 28, 2009
115. Famous Tax Quote #8 - Tax Rules Don't Necessarily Make Sense

     August 14, 2009
116. Famous Tax Quote #7 - Contingent Liabilities

     August 10, 2009
117. Famous Tax Quote #6 - Presumption of Correctness

     July 30, 2009
118. Famous Tax Quotes #4 & #5 - No Patriotic Duty to Increase Taxes

     July 14, 2009
119. Famous Tax Quote #3 - Deductions Legislative Grace

     July 10, 2009
120. Famous Tax Quote #2 - What Actually Occurred

     July 5, 2009
121. Famous Tax Quote #1 - Straight Path / Devious Path

     July 3, 2009