More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. -- Robert Orben
If a person is an economic being and figures out the odds, then there is a very high incentive to cheat. That is, of course, putting aside honor, duty and patriotism. -- Jerome Kurtz, former Commissioner, IRS
A new year begins, and one ends. The familiar sound of file cabinet drawers slamming, papers rustling, flapping folders and computer keystrokes can mean only one thing: time to file the annual tax returns. Sandra Taylor-Sawyer, 2-8-10
The real taxpayer rights:
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say (or we say you said) can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to do exactly what we say or you will receive a visit from a godfather bearing a horse’s head without the rest of the horse. Harold Harmon 6-13-09 Durant Daily Democrat
Tax rates are based, not on gross income earned, but on adjusted gross income, computed by factoring in decades of special interest lobbying that change on an annual basis (you know, “sudden rate hikes”). Tim Higgins Toledo Free Press 5-15-09
