George Osborne Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, Law

  "George Osborne: I'm going after the wealthy tax dodgers" by Robert Winnett, and James Kirkup, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 9, 2012.

• Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

  George Osborne

  Christmas, Cutting, Should

  "George Osborne plays down tax cuts but wants to make sacking staff easier" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

• We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

  George Osborne

  Target, Pay, Tax Evasion

• Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

  George Osborne

  Simple, Needs, Rich

• It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.

  George Osborne

  Life, People, Parent

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. July 8, 2015.

• You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.

  George Osborne

  Responsibility, Ambition, Age

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

• People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.

  George Osborne

  Hard Work, Order, Up Early

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

• Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

  George Osborne

  Running, Doors, People

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