Hunter could be lying about the kick back required. To make his hardship look worse than what it is. We already know he is a scumbag so why not?
Whether it’s “half” or “20 percent” or whatever, I believe that Hunter is basically telling the truth. He and uncle Frank were the longtime “bag men” for Dementia Joe. Obviously, Joe, as a Senator and later VP, could take payoffs, kickbacks and bribes directly, so he funneled everything through his brother and junkie son. It’s actually kind of sad what Joe turned Hunter into. But we’re talking about a very sick, degenerate perv in the man of Joe Biden (cf. Ashley’s diary stories of showers).