"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs so as to make taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor, and does right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more taxes than the law demands." - Judge Learned Hand.

"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.'' - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court.

"[Tax season] is the season of the year when we discover that we owe most of our success to Uncle Sam."
- The Wall Street Journal

"Taxes are not good things, but if you want [government provided or public] services, somebody's got to pay for them so [taxes] are a necessary evil."
- Michael Bloomberg, 2 term Mayor of New York City, philanthropist

"People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women." - Unknown

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein

"Eight decades of amendments... to [the] code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze... The rules are unintelligible to most citizens... The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law". - Shirley Peterson, Former IRS Commissioner, April14, 1993

"Everybody has the right to competent legal counsel. You are, by-far, in a better postion if you have yours before you have a need for them." - John Incorvaia, Esq.

"Certainty? In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin

"Death and taxes may both be certain . . . but death isn't annual." - Anonymous