New Delhi, April 15 -- With the US tax filing 2026 deadline hours away and the billionaire tax debate growing louder - from Capitol Hill to New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made taxing the wealthy a defining issue - one quote from Warren Buffett keeps cutting through the noise. And it came straight from the billionaire himself.

Warren Buffett, worth $143 billion today, has never shied away from this argument. While most billionaires prefer to stay quiet on the subject of their tax bills, Buffett has spent decades making the opposite case - that the system is rigged in his favour, and that he finds it uncomfortable.

At his company's 2024 annual shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett went further than most chief executives would...