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spanone

(135,831 posts)
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:29 PM Jun 2016

Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.

The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.

The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.

Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions” to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.

“They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay?”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-income-tax-returns-once-became-public-they-showed-he-didnt-pay-a-cent/2016/05/20/ffa2f63c-1b7c-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html
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Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent. (Original Post) spanone Jun 2016 OP
Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent. Her Sister Jun 2016 #1
Trump release your Taxes! New Evidence Donald Trump Didn’t Pay Taxes (GD) Her Sister Jun 2016 #2
So who made that possible? Fumesucker Jun 2016 #3
 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
1. Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 01:07 PM
Jun 2016

Wow! Trump just projects! Everything he says is a projection and therefore we should see whatever he says of others as a confession.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
3. So who made that possible?
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 02:46 PM
Jun 2016

Trump is not now and never has been a legislator, if there were loopholes he took advantage of to pay zero taxes then those loopholes were inserted in the law by legislators.

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