Completing Quote by Albert Einstein

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

— Albert Einstein

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy…

— Hermann Weyl

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it.…

— W. C. Fields

“(which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913)”

— Thomas Piketty

A tax is something people pay out of income.

— Grant Shapps

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor…

— David Ricardo

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to…

— Calvin Coolidge

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. – Albert Einstein”

— Tom Wheelwright

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

— Ludwig von Mises

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

— Meredith Whitney

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

— Plato