Avoidance Quote by Denis Healey Download Open image “The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.” — Denis Healey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoidance Business Differences Evasion Prison Tax evasion Taxes Thickness Wall
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. — Suki Kim Copy Share Image
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't have wall. It's so hard when u are stuck into an abyss of ur love for someone long time gone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“I live in Alexandria, Virginia. Near the Supreme Court chambers is a toll bridge across the Potomac. When in a rush, I pay the… — Louis Dembitz Brandeis Copy Share Image
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
“The Prime Minister says that she has given the French President a piece of her mind – this is not a gift I would… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956,… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image