Trump Gets Huge Win as State Court Rules Chicago Owes Him $1 Million Tax Refund
Excerpt:
President Donald Trump just scored a huge win over Chicago politicians and will get a $1 million property tax refund from the Democrat-controlled city.
A court ruled that the City of Chicago must refund Trump the overpaid taxes related to his skyscraper along the Chicago River.
Trump has been fighting the machine in Chicago for years to get this fixed.
He was finally victorious after the Illinois Appellate Court agreed that the Trump International Hotel & Tower was overvalued by the Cook County assessor’s office and the Cook County Board of Review.
The refund will come out of the property taxes due this year to the city of Chicago and eight other government agencies.
The Cook County treasurer’s office will begin preparing approximately 339 refunds totaling $1 million for the skyscraper’s hotel rooms and condo spaces after a three-member appellate court panel on Monday rejected an appeal by the Cook County Board of Review.
Justice Mary Ellen Coghlan wrote in the 13-page ruling that the decision in favor of Trump came after lawyers from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office presented “no expert testimony in support of its estimation of value” for the skyscraper.
Surprise! Biden Treasury Dept. approves car, truck, bus, and tractor exports to Cuba
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Translated excerpt with translator comments:
Obamapalooza 2.0 has begun!
It’s Christmas in May for Castro, Inc. As expected, the “blockade” is being lifted. Jar-Jar Biden’s administration is allowing “self-employed” Cubans to purchase vehicles from U.S. dealers. No word yet on whether credit will be extended.
Pay no attention to the “self employed” restriction. That’s a total fiction. Anyone who knows how Castro, Inc. works knows how good it is at cheating and falsifying and covering up its monopolistic chokehold on all business in Cuba. Yes, Castro, Inc. is an expert at profiting from anything that enters the island, as well as any enterprise that falls under the rubric of private businesses (Mipymes).
Castro, Inc.’s acronym-camouflaged enterprises, especially its behemoth GAESA is in for windfall profits from this loosening of the “blockade”. The dictatorship is expected to slap a 30% tax on all sales. And that’s just for starters. Once this Kraken is loose, God only knows how many ways of cheating and profiting it will be able to devise.
Castro, Inc. will most probably set up dummy vehicle dealerships in Miami and elsewhere, run by its agents. And if credit is granted, guess who’ll be paying for these vehicles? The US taxpayer that’s who.
Loosely translated from Cubanos Por El Mundo
Another little gift from the Democratic administration of Joe Biden to the Cuban dictatorship has been announced by the Treasury Department.
Miami businessmen will be able to export automobiles to the Island, on the condition that the beneficiaries are self-employed workers.
The Treasury Department, through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), purportedly excludes agents of the regime.
Only the aforementioned self-employed or owners of micro, small and medium private companies (Mipymes), will be able to access the cars.
Apparently, the provision is beneficial, because in addition to cars (used and new), farmers will be able to have tractors for their crops.
The other point is that the pretext of the “blockade”, vaunted for more than half a century by the Castro gerontocracy, is once again thrown to the ground.
Medicines, chicken, household appliances, power plants, food, and now automobiles enter Cuba from the “empire.”
So far, everything seems fine, however…
Many warn that the Castro dictatorship would pocket 30% of the value of the vehicle, with the required documentation and taxes.
Another question is that children, grandchildren and other close relatives of Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), would be the true beneficiaries.
GAESA is a dynasty owned by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and is considered the wealthiest anti-capitalist consortium in Latin America.