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Re:Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax... by Tagbert on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:35PM (#24611594)
With tax avoidance on this scale, he had better hope that the records were truthful. If they were fraudulent, the this moves from tax avoidance to tax fraud.

It also shows that Trump is not the fantastic businessman that he has portrayed as his public persona

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Re:Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax... by maxlybbert on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:50PM (#24612489)
Tax avoidance that allows somebody to pay $750 tax on multimillion dollar income should, without question, trigger the alternative minimum tax ( https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc556 ).

Which is more likely, (a) that Trump’s accountants are creative enough to get his personal tax bill to $750 without triggering the AMT, that the IRS hasn’t been able to successfully challenge the returns, and the tax experts the New York Times spoke with for this story didn’t comment on that fact, or (b) the Times story is missing key details?

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