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Trump's claim on tax audits baffles
Politico ^ | February 26, 2016 | NICK GASS

Posted on 02/26/2016 10:16:51 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

There's no legal restriction preventing him from releasing his tax returns, even if he's being audited...

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To: patriot08

Now...a company the size of Trump’s may get audited on a regular basis. But if that wasn’t the case...wonder who put the bug in the IRS’ ear? Hmmmm.....Hillary? The Big O? makes you wonder, given the state/makeup of the IRS at this time.

I was audited lasts year for the first time since the 1970’s when I was audited then. I give a lot to church and conservative organizations....coincidence??


81 posted on 02/26/2016 10:52:05 AM PST by duckbutt (Those who pay no taxes have no check on their appetite for services.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

If he’s worth his weight as a business man, he’s been audited several times and taken every deduction he’s eligible to and then some. We are obliged to play the tax game the government put in front of us and I’m sure he’s played it hard. Can’t fault a guy for that. That said, I’d bet what Trump will want to avoid is having everyone discover how shaky his real-estate house of cards really is. His stated net worth is likely akin to a good fish story.


82 posted on 02/26/2016 10:52:54 AM PST by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey
I agree. This is a minor issue.

However, it revealed Mitt Romney as a hypocrite at best. In 2012, Reid and Palosi, both of the OPPOSITION party, demanded that Romney release his taxes and falsely implied all kinds of irregularities.

Now Romney is doing the same thing and with unsubstantiated innuendos to the front runner of HIS OWN party. It is dishonest and despicable of Romney. Even Greta on FOX said this.

83 posted on 02/26/2016 10:54:38 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: GodGunsGuts

Of course there isn’t a legal restriction but anyone who has been in business knows you don’t make it as easy as possible for auditors to “claw back” money. Of course since these guys are all politicians they have no idea the type of havoc their rules have put on businesses


84 posted on 02/26/2016 10:57:07 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: sparklite2

Sarcasm is not liking it ...


85 posted on 02/26/2016 11:02:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Pick a fight somewhere else.


86 posted on 02/26/2016 11:07:58 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

Thanks nooby, you are very perspicacious ...


87 posted on 02/26/2016 11:13:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: sparklite2

Or after Hillary releases the Clinton Crime Family Foundation returns.


88 posted on 02/26/2016 11:14:32 AM PST by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

“I could care less about Trumps taxes, not an issue.”

You could, care less? Which means you care...right?


89 posted on 02/26/2016 11:50:37 AM PST by StormPrepper
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To: StormPrepper

Trump’s tax returns don’t show his net worth his audited financials do. Those were filed mos ago.


90 posted on 02/26/2016 12:08:38 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: jennychase

So... you have made money, Jenny?

Well, congrats. way to go.


91 posted on 02/26/2016 12:18:26 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: sparklite2

We’re still in the Republican primary.

We already know Obama and Kerry are evil.

Some of us are wondering about Trump unless questioning Trump has become illegal, immoral or fattening on Free Republic.


92 posted on 02/26/2016 12:19:55 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: JRochelle

You are right. There are probably iffy items in his tax returns but we don’t need to see them (and we won’t) to realize he is a blooming idiot.


93 posted on 02/26/2016 12:21:21 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: JRochelle

I’m beginning to think all these Trump supporters are the Trump University grads and they are the ones that didn’t sue because Trump is just too wonderful to sue.

Idiocracy lives.


94 posted on 02/26/2016 12:23:14 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: DoodleDawg

All these Trumpers are disparaging release of tax returns because Trump won’t release his.

Everything Trump does is wonderful.

Everything Trump won’t do, doesn’t deserve doing.

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.”


95 posted on 02/26/2016 12:25:08 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

Trump trashing has become the water
we swim in on this forum. But it
goes beyond that to attacking his
supporters. It’s mobs and pitchforks
all the way down.


96 posted on 02/26/2016 12:28:41 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

Look, I’m sorry if you don’t like what I say about Trump.

It’s critical and maybe what you call trashing. But I feel that Trump is a disaster and would be a gigantic disappointment as president.

I have suffered countless slings and arrows here as a Cruz supporter.

I do not even have it in me to get as nasty as the Trump supporters have been to me.

So take that whining somewhere else.


97 posted on 02/26/2016 12:33:28 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: GodGunsGuts
There's no legal restriction preventing him from releasing his tax returns, even if he's being audited...

Of course there is no LEGAL restriction, just a common sense restriction. Even non-university grads should understand that, unless they never held a job in the private sector.

98 posted on 02/26/2016 12:38:35 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JRochelle

As directed by the Constitution, a presidential candidate:

1) Must be a natural born citizen of the United States,
2) must be a resident for 14 years,
3) must be 35 years of age or older

I don’t see “releasing tax returns to the GOP Establishment” as one of the items in the list!


99 posted on 02/26/2016 12:48:06 PM PST by o2bfree (DNC = RNC :-)
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To: altura
Gosh I feel you're pain.


100 posted on 02/26/2016 12:50:43 PM PST by o2bfree (DNC = RNC :-)
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