Sentence examples for described tax from inspiring English sources

He recently described tax evaders as "leeches".

Its boss, Ed Krell, described tax savings as the "icing on the cake".

Mr. Lew also described tax reform as a top priority, with an eye to raising more money, lowering rates, reducing loopholes and generally rationalizing the code.

For three hours, witnesses described tax avoidance plans sold by the major accounting firms and bought by the biggest companies with no fear that the I.R.S. would uncover the deals or impose a meaningful penalty.

Paul Waldman, a senior writer for The American Prospect, described tax reform as "incredibly complicated" in an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post.

The case gained ground in recent years when Bradley C. Birkenfeld, a former UBS private banker, spilled secrets to prosecutors and described tax-evasion planning that included some of the highest executives of the bank.

In embracing an expansive federal taxing power, he echoed Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," which described taxes as "a badge, not of slavery, but of liberty".

He joins Terra Firma despite describing tax as "first and foremost a moral issue" in a speech last year.

In 2010, David Cameron and George Osborne – both of whom describe tax avoidance as "morally repugnant" – took Pessina as part of their entourage to China.

Critics like to describe tax hikes as hurting small business, because small-business owners make up a sizable percentage of people in the top two brackets and because small-business owners, unlike Wall Street traders, are popular on Main Street.

Then he put Luxembourg and Switzerland in the same category as "Ouagadougou" when describing tax havens - a comment which also offended Burkina Faso, whose capital is Ouagadougou.