Posted on 12/21/2022 9:56:29 AM PST by Beave Meister
The amount of income, deductions and taxes paid by or refunded to former President Donald Trump while serving in the White House was detailed in a new report released Tuesday night.
The report reveals that Trump on his federal tax returns declared negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and that he paid a total of $1,500 in income taxes for the years 2016 and 2017.
On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The report was posted online shortly after the Ways and Means Committee voted to make public redacted versions of Trump’s full income tax returns, and those of eight related business entities for the tax years 2015 through 2020.
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Just... kind of left out ... the years 2018 and 2019 out of the story lead. Typical.
The bigger story is that the demonkkraps lied again. They argued that release of the tax information to the committee for a single former POTUS was for legislative purposes - to look at how POTUS tax returns were audited by the IRS. Apparently they perjured themselves through their attorneys.
The second big story is that Trump complied with the tax laws written by the Congress. So why was this important for the committee again?
How does one committee have the power to act on behalf of the entire Congress? Doesn't the House have to vote to approve the committee's actions first?
-PJ
I hope President Trump paid zero tax. It will prove his point that the entire system is rigged against the working man.
If Trump committed tax fraud, he should be punished.
If he followed the law and got a refund, good for him.
If the Democrats and Deep State lied about Trump committing tax fraud, to violate his privacy and release his taxes, then they should hang for treason.
If a judge ok his tax release, without evidence of tax fraud, they should hang as well.
The fact that someone is vilified for following the law, paying their taxes, while people like the Biden’s tax in recycled US tax dollars to payoff mansions, and are not investigated or punished, says that we live in a Fascist state.
You just knew that Natalie Would. 😁
The question is, Was Trump charged with tax evasion? If not, case closed and shut up. (I’m not talking to you, but the Democrats and MSM.)
I’m going to take a wild guess: since they released this “bombshell” a few days before Christmas it’s just a big nothing burger and they want to get rid of it when no one is paying attention.
Besides Grant, has any politician lost money after leaving DC?
That was a pretty significant lie. I heard Trump say it at least 20 times (that he was being audited-when in reality he wasn’t)
I want a moral Ronald Reagan type back. A man we can be lookup to with respect. I am tired of politicains from both camps that lie with abandon.
Is that difficult to understand?
AHH...a recent member.
People ignorant of running a big business are going to totally fail to grasp this
Democrats will intentionally incite this
The value of depreciation!
what lie?
DeSantis is being bought...by the usual suspects.
He should stay in Florida.
“Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.” - Judge Learned Hand, Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).
So Trump is completely on the up and up with his financial dealings?
Thats no way to get elected President.
You really really think a business as complex as Trumps never was audited?
If not by the IRS, by the CPA firms covering their axxes
central_va: what lie?
Trump during the 2016 and 2020 campaign said he was under IRS audit so under the advice of his accountant he could not release his tax returns.
Just being released Trump was never under IRS audit during those years.
That is a significant lie.
DeSantis 2024
As the Biden Crime Syndicate has demonstrated, it’s their family members and close friends’ tax returns that need to be investigated to see how deep the REAL corruption goes, and how much.
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