LOOK! Something shiny!
And now the Clinton Foundation tax returns...?
Hooey. Assange promised he was going to release something that would force Hillary from the race by the first debate. Anyone remember that?
Some of us are becoming dangerously over-confident.
How about they take a look at how democraticks handle THEIR taxes.
What a nothingburger.
Title left out the word “ illegally”
NYT ILLEGALLY obtains Trump tax records that show Trump used legal compliance with tax law ( most of which passed by democrats)
It’s unbelievable they are focusing on this. Meanwhile the woman who took hundreds of millions in bribes and possibly could have been involved in espionage is coddled and protected. Right now here in New York city there is a big scandal with the police dept taking bribes to do favors for Hasidic Jews. I mean we’re talking a few thousand bucks here in bribes, and a ton of cops no doubt will be fired and prosecuted. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton has done the SAME exact thing - Using her job to pocket hundreds of millions of bucks in exchange for favors, even with terror sponsoring countries, and not only is she not prosecuted, she gets to be PRESIDENT! WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH MY COUNTRY??
As usual, the complainers never finger the real culprit, namely, the Congress.
If *they* don’t like the way the tax laws are written they need to petition the Legislative Branch.
But in no way can Donald J. Trump be faulted for taking every available tax benefit afforded to him. He doesn’t make the rules.
The tax laws are available to any of us - and all of us - for that matter.
Hillary is arguing that you are evil if you don’t give more money than required to the government. Let that sink in.
I’m throughly familiar with US federal tax law. I don’t see any problem to claim losses on your tax return, carry them over and utilize them in future. After all, the owners of NYT should know best how to tax plan business losses over the years.
Hillary reduced her tax burden by making a charitable donation ... to her own Clinton Foundation.
Seriously? Move money from one of your pockets to the other one and get a tax benefit?
This whole tax nonsense is ridiculous. The standard for any presidential candidate — for either side — should be:
Are you under indictment for tax evasion?
No?
Okay, that’s all we need to know.
The way this story is being distorted is mind numbing. The key word is LEGALLY and this story is being reported like he did something wrong.
When I finally think I couldn’t have anymore hatred for our media something like this goes down. They misreport and lie and they think it’s ok because it fits their narrative.
One question (well, many questions, but one for now) - Does anyone think that someone would leak just ONE YEAR of Trump’s tax returns? I figure if someone at the NY state tax office (most likely source) could leak one return, they would leak several. To me that means that whoever leaked these has several years of Trump’s old tax forms - but they are only releasing this one.
LOOK! Something shiny!
I can’t believe that any Lawyer and Accountant that works for Trump would admit and speculate about Trump’s personal business.
I hope he sues and ends up owning the Times.
1995 was Bill Clinton’s third year in office, and Trump filed his taxes in accordance with Clinton’s tax code. So... what’s the problem?
Legally Avoiding Paying IRS? My question is this, did he pay taxes for 18 years, or did he LEGALLY not paying taxes?
no taxes..sign me up..
Somewhat disappointed that the defense of Trump using carry-forward losses seems to be based on a “well it’s legal” meme. There’s a good reason why carry-forward losses are legal ... because it’s also MORAL! After all, if an entrepreneur who puts his own money at risk will have to pay heavy taxes if that gamble pays off, then of course any loss of capital in a bad year should be allowed to offset any increase in capital in future years, so that over the long term the only money that is taxed is the net increase in capital, since otherwise the effect of the tax law would be to confiscate the money you have rather than to tax net income.
That’s a fairly simple concept to explain and to understand, and this would be a good opportunity for the Trump campaign to use to explain this to those who do not, to defend the MORALITY of using carry-forward losses, rather than making sound like he is excusing an unfair loophole based on mere legality.
Also, aside from morality it’s also a sound pro-growth strategy, given that nearly half of all new businesses will fail - and the rest almost always lose money for a year or more before becoming profitable. So if those carry-forward loss provisions were taken away, you’d see a sharp decline in the number of entrepreneurs willing to put a significant portion of their accumulated wealth at risk in order to start a new business, since any losses from failures or even initial-year losses could not be recouped by offsetting those against future profits.