April 6th: The tax year begins

10 quips and one liners about taxation:

1. Everybody should pay their income tax with a smile. I tried it, but they demanded cash. Jackie Mason
2. The Inland Revenue have now produced a new simple tax form with only 2 sections: 1. How much do you earn? 2. Send it.
3. Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Peg Bracken
4. Death and taxes may be certain, but we don’t have to die every year.
5. The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it’s just a tired feeling. Paula Poundstone
6. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers
7. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein
8. Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income. Alfred E. Neuman
9. Tax Reform: Taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.
10. Taxation: The process by which money is collected from the people to pay the salaries of the men who do the collecting.