At what point would IRS start looking into trump's income tax?

[70sEraVet]

If there's evidence that he filed false business records to hide a crime, then it certainly seems likely that he knowingly filed false deductions on his income tax for those years.
Fox News may confuse viewers with "if they can do this to him, they can do it to anybody" bolony, but EVERYBODY understands what happens when you cheat the IRS.

[gab13by13]

1. I would ask a different question

Why hasn't the IRS investigated Trump's tax fraud?

[yaesu]

2. A trump humper headed the IRS up to oct/22 and not sure if repukes

are blocking Bidens choice or if a new one has been voted in but the deputy director was in charge after oct. Hopefully they will get their act together and go after the orange slug

[Ocelot II]

3. How do we know they aren't?

Obviously it wouldn't have happened while one of TFG's stooges was heading the agency, but it could happen now, and we wouldn't know because those investigations aren't public while they are in progress - assuming there aren't enough lower-level stooges still in the agency to throw sand in the gears.

[Maeve]

4. I suspect they have been, but they were told to stand down during his time in office

And there may still be some trying to make any investigation difficult if not impossible now.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Yes, but

I wonder if real estate valuation is something they really want to go into big time. There is variability everywhere and all the time. I suspect taxing authorities don't challenge them because eventually, when properties are sold, the relativity evens out and taxes are paid. To go after a big time real estate developer would be to wonder why they don't go after all of them. They're everywhere, in every city and town. Pure speculation I know but I see relativity in what seems like hard numbers. Not saying Trump didn't push the limits, but still.

[70sEraVet]

6. I wasn't thinking of the false real estate valuations.

I was thinking of the efforts to disguise the hush money payments. To declare them as legal expenses, then file taxes accordingly, seems like an obvious crime of tax fraud.

[Johonny]

7. There is already the civil case in NY

I assume since James referred it over for criminal prosecution, it is possible we will see criminal charges stem from that. Particularly for Eric.

[Irish_Dem]

8. When hell freezes over. Trump is a powerful, rich white dude.