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The Hill: Five things to know about the Trump Organization indictment
The Hill ^ | 07/04/21 05:49 PM EDT | BY NAOMI JAGODA -

Posted on 07/06/2021 4:32:00 AM PDT by RandFan

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1 posted on 07/06/2021 4:32:00 AM PDT by RandFan
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Weisselberg avoided taxes on about $1.7 million of income

Fake news. Not income.

2 posted on 07/06/2021 4:34:40 AM PDT by conservative98
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Daniel Hemel, a University of Chicago law professor, said


Our tax experts say that’s not even taxable. You can pay for someone’s education that way. - DTJ


3 posted on 07/06/2021 4:39:31 AM PDT by conservative98
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And Al Sharpton still owes the Feds 4 million, plus he owes the plaintiffs in the Tawana Brawley suit millions that remain unpaid. When will he be charged criminally?


4 posted on 07/06/2021 4:40:01 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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Compensation of any kind is taxable. Pretty stupid to skirt the law over 1.7M spread over so many years.


5 posted on 07/06/2021 4:41:32 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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Compensation of any kind is taxable

Not true.


6 posted on 07/06/2021 4:42:53 AM PDT by conservative98
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The IRS has not indicated any problem here.
The City of New York, however, is chasing this guy for federal taxes.

That’s not how federal tax collection works, and it is a good indication that they have absolutely nothing to charge him with.


7 posted on 07/06/2021 4:44:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Much of the untaxed compensation, more than $1.1 million from 2005 through 2017, came from the Trump Organization paying rent and related expenses for a Manhattan apartment where Weisselberg resided. While the apartment was Weisselberg’s main residence starting in 2005, the CFO falsely claimed to tax authorities that he wasn’t a New York City resident for a number of years and started paying city income taxes only after he sold a home on Long Island in 2013, according to court papers.

This little item itself would seem to vindicate Weisselberg. It sounds like something a person would do if the Long Island home WAS his primary residence.

8 posted on 07/06/2021 4:48:00 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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Federal and state taxes.


9 posted on 07/06/2021 4:49:14 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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the following types of gifts are considered fully nontaxable:

Tuition or medical expenses paid on someone else’s behalf.

-ibd


10 posted on 07/06/2021 4:49:50 AM PDT by conservative98
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I wonder if the governor of New York has to pay taxes based on the cost of living in the Executive Mansion.


11 posted on 07/06/2021 4:54:15 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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#6 it’s another witchhunt show trial


12 posted on 07/06/2021 5:00:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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Fake news. Not income.

Then taxable compensation.

13 posted on 07/06/2021 5:03:21 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Our tax experts say that’s not even taxable. You can pay for someone’s education that way. - DTJ

Then the Trump Organization should have no problem winning in court.

14 posted on 07/06/2021 5:04:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Weisselberg avoided taxes on about $1.7 million of income


Over more than 12 years.


15 posted on 07/06/2021 5:05:57 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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I wonder if the governor of New York has to pay taxes based on the cost of living in the Executive Mansion.

In most, if not all, states the governor's residence is not considered taxable compensation.

16 posted on 07/06/2021 5:06:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Why?


17 posted on 07/06/2021 5:07:13 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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I know personally lots of executives that are going to be in trouble if this goes through. I would say at least 10% of Manhattan apartments in mid-town are corporate apartments for executives that have a house somewhere else but keep an apartment in the city. I am not sure of the kids schooling. But everything else is very commonly done. I think its possible that his divorce caused him to tell one story to his wife and another to the IRS. Where normally he would have been more consistent. In order for him to keep the corporate apartment he would need a home somewhere else. But after the divorce she probably got the other house and he had no cover. He should have bought a small investment property in Florida or somewhere.


18 posted on 07/06/2021 5:09:02 AM PDT by poinq
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The City of New York, however, is chasing this guy for federal taxes.

If New Yor state and local taxes are based on a person's income reported on federal returns then if you underreport on federal taxes you also underreport on state and local taxes.

19 posted on 07/06/2021 5:10:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Why?

Why not? I suppose they can justify it by saying it's for security reasons but for whatever reason the state does not consider it taxable. But on the other hand states like Idaho don't have governor's mansions but instead provide a housing allowance. I wonder if that's taxable?

20 posted on 07/06/2021 5:14:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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