Famous Property Tax Quotations

Our favorite quotations regarding taxation, after 25 years of commercial property tax practice in the State of Florida:

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
--John Maynard Keynes

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
--Anonymous

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.
--Bernard Berenson

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
--Edmund Burke

Read my lips. No new taxes!
--George Bush

Taxes are the sinews of the state.
--Cicero

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
--Arthur Godfrey

Death and taxes are inevitable.
--Thomas C. Haliburton

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
--William Lyon MacKenzie King

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
--John Marshall

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
--F. J. Raymond

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
--Will Rogers

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
--Mark Twain

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
--Van Panopoulos

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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
--Charles Dudley Warner

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Daniel A. Weiss is a former Attorney Special Magistrate for the Miami-Dade County Value Adjustment Board. Mr. Weiss now represents residential, commercial, institutional charitable, commercial, high-end residential, agricultural and municipal taxpayers at VAB proceedings throughout the State of Florida. Mr. Weiss handles both valuation and legal claims.

Mr. Weiss has over 25 years property tax experience. Mr. Weiss represented the Miami-Dade County taxing authorities in litigation and appeals between 1981 and 1995 as a Miami-Dade Assistant County Attorney and has since represented taxpayers in property tax matters.

In Florida Trend magazine’s “Legal Elite” issue, July 2004, Mr. Weiss was selected by his peers as one of the top 30 government lawyers in the State of Florida.

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