NYT: Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=50742"><span class="small">Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, The New York Times</span></a>

Monday, 28 September 2020 08:52

Excerpt: "The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public."

The aftermath of a Trump rally in 2016. (photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images)

NYT: Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, The New York Times

28 September 20

The Times obtained Donald Trump�s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

onald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years � largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

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