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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt what point would IRS start looking into trump's income tax?
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
(21,234 posts)Why hasn't the IRS investigated Trump's tax fraud?
yaesu
(8,020 posts)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
(115,576 posts)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
(42,269 posts)And there may still be some trying to make any investigation difficult if not impossible now.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)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
(3,472 posts)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
(20,817 posts)I assume since James referred it over for criminal prosecution, it is possible we will see criminal charges stem from that. Particularly for Eric.