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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:29 AM Oct 2018

Not just Donald Trump. Kushner Paid No Federal Income Tax for Years, Documents Suggest

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/business/jared-kushner-taxes.html

Confidential documents reviewed by The Times indicate that Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, probably paid little or no income tax from 2009 to 2016.

Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million.

And yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes, according to confidential financial documents reviewed by The New York Times.

His low tax bills are the result of a common tax-minimizing maneuver that, year after year, generated millions of dollars in losses for Mr. Kushner, according to the documents. But the losses were only on paper — Mr. Kushner and his company did not appear to actually lose any money. The losses were driven by depreciation, a tax benefit that lets real estate investors deduct a portion of the cost of their buildings from their taxable income every year.

In 2015, for example, Mr. Kushner took home $1.7 million in salary and investment gains. But those earnings were swamped by $8.3 million of losses, largely because of “significant depreciation” that Mr. Kushner and his company took on their real estate, according to the documents reviewed by The Times.

Nothing in the documents suggests Mr. Kushner or his company broke the law. A spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s lawyer said that Mr. Kushner “paid all taxes due.”

In theory, the depreciation provision is supposed to shield real estate developers from having their investments whittled away by wear and tear on their buildings.

In practice, though, the allowance often represents a lucrative giveaway to developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner.


_ _ _ _ If you click on the image below, an article entitled "How Jared Kushner Avoided Paying Taxes" explains the ruse. _ _ _ _ _

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Not just Donald Trump. Kushner Paid No Federal Income Tax for Years, Documents Suggest (Original Post) CousinIT Oct 2018 OP
So, how do the rest of us go tax free? Greybnk48 Oct 2018 #1
they have no skin in the game Dixc Oct 2018 #2
welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2018 #3

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
1. So, how do the rest of us go tax free?
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 09:32 AM
Oct 2018

I'd have loved to keep all my money all these years. I would be much better off than I am now!

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