71 Movie Quotes about Taxes (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about taxes, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 I fought for this country. We pay our taxes and we're prisoners in our own home.

Quote from New Jack City

52 Listen, anybody doing business in this town, has to pay $5 a day, otherwise, they can get out of town.

Quote from Militant Eagle

53 Income tax evasion? That's a laugh. Why, that's the funniest thing I ever heard. Let me see that.

Edward G. Robinson as Joe Krozac in The Last Gangster

54 In my district, they still speak of how you collected taxes in the little villages with field artillery.

Ellen Drew as Thea in Isle of the Dead (1945)

55 I'm not scared of you. If you could count, they wouldn't be investigating your taxes.

Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

56 I take off the same kind of things on my income tax: my union dues, deductible, I take off when I have my rubber boots vulcanized, when I have my lunchbox water-proofed, and I take off 25 percent of my rent when I use my apartment for business reasons.

Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

57 And you, what are you playing hooky from? -Taxes! -Yeah, we don't like taxes!

Stan Laurel as Stan in Utopia (1951)

58 The country's taxes must be fixed, and I know what to do with it. If you think you're paying too much now just wait till I get through with it.

Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933)

59 This means war. -Something must be done. War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.

Quote from Duck Soup (1933)

60 You got license fees, number plates, gas and oil, taxes, insurance, identification cards, letters, bills, flat tires, dents, traffic tickets, motorcycle cops, courtrooms, lawyers, fines and a million other things.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)