Trump’s Tax Returns Remain Mystery as Election Day Looms
Donald Trump Breaks 40-Year Bipartisan Tradition By Not Releasing Tax Returns
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tax-returns_us_5820c196e4b0d9ce6fbd9e3c
Team Trump admits, public won’t see candidate’s tax returns
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-admits-public-wont-see-candidates-tax-returns
Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
REVEALED: New docs show Trump used ‘dubious’ tax maneuvers his own lawyers advised were ‘improper’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html
The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return
Donald Trump’s defenses of not paying taxes pretty much say it all
Donald Trump Acknowledges Not Paying Federal Income Taxes for Years
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
New Evidence Donald Trump Didn’t Pay Taxes
If the presumptive GOP nominee keeps hiding his returns, Congress could force him to show his hand with a one-line amendment to the tax code.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/15/new-evidence-donald-trump-didn-t-pay-taxes.html
Trump Says ‘He’s Smart’ for Not Paying Federal Taxes. It’s also Probably Legal
~Lies
Trump’s claim on tax audits baffles
There’s no legal restriction preventing him from releasing his tax returns, even if he’s being audited.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/republican-2016-debate-donald-trump-tax-audit-219842
Audit? No, Trump hides tax returns as a political calculation
No, being audited does not prevent Donald Trump from releasing his tax returns
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-transparency-fact-check-20160926-snap-story.html
Trump: IRS Audit Not Stopping Me From Releasing My Tax Returns
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/trump-audit-not-stopping-me-releasing-my-tax-returns
All the excuses Trump has given for why he won’t release his tax returns
This letter exposes the absurdity of Donald Trump’s excuses about his tax returns
What Trump’s Tax Returns Could Tell Us About His Dealings with Russia
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-taxes-russia-214405
All of Donald Trump’s apologists: Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie argue that avoiding taxes makes him a “genius”
This is why Donald Trump’s tax returns haven’t been leaked
Trump’s Unreleased Tax Returns Are The True 2016 Election Scandal
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/many-excuses-donald-trump-has-given-not
THE GREAT TRUMP TAX MYSTERIES: IS HE HIDING LOOPHOLES, ERRORS, OR SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS?
Why won’t Donald Trump release his taxes? An investigation into the G.O.P. candidate’s finances—the extensive deductions he could claim, the F.E.C. filings from his Scottish and Irish golf resorts, and his declarations to the British government—reveals a disturbing pattern of mistakes, hype, and contradictions.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-great-trump-tax-mysteries
5 Things You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
http://fortune.com/2016/08/05/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-donald-trumps-tax-returns/
Why Donald Trump Might Be Really Afraid to Release His Taxes
http://lawnewz.com/important/why-donald-trump-might-be-really-afraid-to-release-his-taxes/
What’s Hiding in Donald Trump’s Tax Return?
No, not ties to the mafia. But his 1040 could contain something far more damaging.
DONALD TRUMP’S TAX RECORDS: A TALE OF BUSINESS FAILURES
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-federal-income-tax-records-506713
Donald Trump’s Tax Returns May Be Hiding This Bombshell from the 1990s
http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/donald-trumps-tax-returns-debt/
Tax Returns: Still MIA
Trump’s refusal to produce his tax documents is symbolic of the lying, fantasy-based campaign he’s run.
Here’s who’s seen Trump’s tax returns (and it’s not just his accountant)
The big lie about Donald Trump’s tax returns
If you want the truth, listen to his accountants.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-big-lie-about-donald-trumps-tax-returns-585aa23bf529#.a28movaey
Here’s How Much Trump Might Owe the IRS
http://fortune.com/2016/09/21/donald-trump-foundation-irs/
The Top 3 Trump Scandals a Democratic Senate Will Investigate
Breaking Tax Laws
Donald Trump’s charitable foundation has gotten far less scrutiny than the Clinton Foundation, though in the last months of the campaign that is starting to change. An investigation by the Washington Post found several cases in which the Trump used the foundation’s money to pay business expenses, contrary to IRS regulation. Fortune estimated that this means Trump “would have to pay a total of around $650,000 in excise taxes, refunds, and interest in 2016 to satisfy the IRS’s potential claim,” if the feds decide to investigate and seek restitution.
The report continues:
“Given the seemingly serious violations already exposed, the IRS could initiate an audit to examine if the Trump Foundation is a sham operated mainly for the billionaire’s benefit. Nonetheless, the IRS has a policy not to make public announcements about investigations. So even if it does investigate, we won’t know. What’s more, the audit would take many months.”
That means that whatever is going on at the Trump Foundation, the public won’t find out until after the election. But given how wrapped up the Trump Foundation is in the possibly criminal Pam Bondi scandal, a Senate investigation into that affair could unearth a lot of interesting information about the Trump Foundation’s tax alleged tax violations.
http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/trump-scandals-investigations/
10 Ways Trump Broke the Law and Got Away with It: Putting the Latest Clinton Email Media Frenzy in Perspective
There’s no comparing Clinton’s email carelessness to a lifetime of lawlessness.
Caught Illegally not paying sales taxes. Some of Trump’s other brushes with the law are just dumb, unless he’s not as rich as he says he is or just likes to flirt with borderline behavior. In the mid-‘80s, New York State’s attorney general listed Trump among 200 other wealthy people who bought pricey gems at a Manhattan jeweler and had the store put an out-of-state address on the receipt to avoid paying sales tax. Ed Koch, the mayor of New York at the time, said Trump should have spent 15 days in jail. Had Trump been convicted of tax fraud, Johnston wrote, he likely would have lost his New Jersey casino licenses.
More evidence of federal income tax fraud. In what can only be described as a bizarre series of events, Trump’s lawyer and accountant Jack Mitnick testified under oath that while he signed Trump’s 1984 federal tax return, neither he nor his firm had prepared it. “That same return showed $0 business consulting income and more than $600,000 of expenses for which no receipts were produced, also strong evidence of fraud,” Johnston wrote. During the presidential campaign, Trump has refused to release his taxes, saying he is being audited by the IRS, “but [he] will not even release the form letter proving an audit.”
Claiming $916 million in tax losses, but not paying bills. When the New York Times broke the story that Trump claimed $916 million in real estate losses in 1995, most of the focus was on how it allowed him to avoid federal taxes for years on income adding up to that figure. But there is another dimension to that move, which Johnston described in a Daily Beast piece: Those losses enabled Trump to tell bankruptcy courts he didn’t have the money to fully pay an army of contractors and small businesses. “Trump claimed to be worth billions in the 1990s, just as he now does, yet he could not pay his bills,” Johnston wrote. “He stiffed hundreds of small-business suppliers, including those for the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, which will go out of business [in mid-October].”
Donald Trump (Research Article, a work in progress)
https://tmblr.co/ZFotut29RiRWu
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