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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.

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

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.