Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.