Trump tax returns

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What do Trump's tax returns show? (BBC News)

Newly released tax returns for former President Donald Trump have shed light on his business losses, complicated tax set-ups and tax payments during his White ...

About half came from salaries, and the other half came from interest and investments. In 1996, Mrs Clinton's book helped the couple earn over $1m, but their tax rate actually declined to 18.5%. In comparison, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama's taxable income peaked in 2009, when they took home $5.5m, and paid about 30% in taxes. But he paid just under $1m, giving him a tax rate of just 4.1%. For example, in 2017, he lost money but still paid taxes. He paid no taxes in 2020, the final year of his presidency. "This showcases something that he had been trying to hide for years." That all means his return has an added layer of complexity that you might not see with other billionaires." The finding led to criticism from Democrats. In some years, Mr Trump paid a far smaller proportion of his income than other recent presidents. "He's the quintessential businessman and he's got his hands in everything," she said. "Even though we haven't seen Trump's taxes, we've been through this before.

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Trump tax returns: key takeaways from the records release (The Guardian)

The former president had a bank account in China, failed to donate in 2020 and claims Democrats 'weaponized' his taxes.

Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties. Trump reported paying a little more than $400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. The same year, Trump reporting receiving $750,000 in fees for speaking engagements. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his $400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. “The bank account was in 2013.

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Trump Tax Returns Undermine His Image as a Successful ... (The New York Times)

The release of former President Donald J. Trump's private tax documents by the House Ways and Means Committee shows heavy losses from his own ventures as he ...

But The Times’ investigation in 2020 reported that in those years Mr. In Mr. In their reports last week, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee downplayed the effect that a long-unresolved audit, dating to 2009, had on audits during Mr. A report by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which analyzes tax policy for Congress, noted that an audit of Mr. Trump used the accounting firm Mazars USA to prepare his taxes and those of his businesses. The tax documents released Friday show that Mr. But in 2020, as the pandemic recession swiftly descended during his last year in office, Mr. The sales of business properties Mr. In his first three years in office, Mr. Trump’s tax bill may have gone up because of a change in his signature 2017 tax overhaul: a limitation on the deduction of state and local taxes paid. Much of what the committee made public on Friday had also been revealed in a report with top line numbers that the committee released last week. The release on Friday morning contained thousands of pages of tax documents, including individual returns for Mr.

What have we learned from former President Trump's tax returns? (WJCT NEWS)

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tax Policy Center senior fellow Steven Rosenthal about what we learned from former President Donald Trump's tax returns ...

What's really curious - and we don't know the answer - is that because of the sophistication and complication of Trump's taxes, is it because of Trump's obstruction and delay? CHANG: Trump, of course, has denounced the release of these records, but he also said that these returns actually show success in using depreciation and deductions as incentives to create, quote, "thousands of jobs." And the IRS just seemed to flounder. But it's not a lawful application of the tax rules. You know, part of the reason House Democrats even obtained these returns was because the IRS never carried out mandatory audits during the first two years of Trump's presidency. And that's important because taxes are a window to a person's financial character. And the returns - they spanned six years, showing, for one thing, that Trump and his wife paid nothing at all in federal taxes in 2020. Depreciation can be advantageous, but that's not how Trump generated all of his losses to soak up his income. Go back a few decades, and I don't think he's paid taxes at all - income taxes at all for several decades. Do you find any of that to be true? It's not often that we say there is news to report on from the House Ways and Means Committee, but today there is. CHANG: That was then, of course, then-candidate Donald Trump on NBC's "Meet The Press" back in 2016.

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Trump responds to release of tax returns by US Congress (RTE.ie)

Democrats in the US Congress have released six years of Donald Trump's tax records to the public, disclosing documents the former president long sought to ...

"This is a regrettable stain on the Ways and Means Committeeand Congress and will make American politics even more divisiveand disheartening. The Radical Left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!" "The great USA divide will now grow far worse.

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Donald Trump's tax returns released to public in blow to re-election bid (Financial Times)

The report, which was compiled by Congress's non-partisan joint committee on taxation, showed Trump paid $1.8mn in federal income tax between 2015 and 2020, ...

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Factbox: Summary of Trump's tax returns for 2015 through 2020 (Reuters)

A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee on Friday released former President Donald Trump's tax returns from 2015 through 2020.

Taxable income Below are highlights from his personal tax returns. Taxable interest

Essential California: Trump tax returns to end the year (Los Angeles Times)

A House committee released six years of the former president's tax returns. Plus: Southwest's meltdown and the year's best great reads.

(Caution, spoilers within.) If you’re a fan of this newsletter, you’ll love our daily podcast “The Times,” hosted every weekday by columnist Gustavo Arellano, along with reporters from across our newsroom. Send comments, complaints and ideas to Here’s what he wanted you to see: A wild pursuit. A deputy killed. Good thing the L.A. The extensive professional relationships Sam Bankman-Fried cultivated with current and former federal regulators risk embarrassment for all. 14](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-29/final-california-inflation-relief-payments-debit-cards-january). A House committee released six years of Trump tax returns documenting his aggressive efforts to minimize what he paid the IRS. Essential California will be back in your inbox Tuesday, Jan. Editor’s note: We will be taking Monday off.

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Unanswered questions about Trump's tax returns (CNN)

After years of legal battles, pontificating and theorizing, former President Donald Trump's tax returns between ((for? from?)))) 2015 ((to?)

The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said the loans and the amounts of claimed interest could indicate Trump was disguising gifts to his children. In 2017 to 2019, Trump said he received exactly $24,000 from his son Eric Trump, and Eric paid him $19,605 in interest in 2020. Among the six years of tax returns the House Ways and Means Committee released, 2020 was the sole year in which Trump listed no donations to charity. The lack of an audit looks especially suspect after representatives for Trump’s predecessor and successor said they had been subjected to annual audits by the IRS. Since 1977, the Internal Revenue Service has had a policy of auditing every president’s personal tax returns while they are in office. Unlike previous presidents, Trump declined to divest his business interests while he was in office. But they don’t spell out where money was going and to whom. Trump did not report the Chinese bank account in personal financial disclosures when he was president, likely because it was listed under his businesses. and Eric – undisclosed sums of money on which he collected interest. Many critics and political opponents have theorized that Trump fought the public disclosure of his [tax returns](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/politics/federal-tax-returns-released-donald-trump/index.html) because they potentially provided evidence of illegal or politically damaging behavior. He frequently boasted about donating parts of his quarterly paycheck to various government agencies. Trump’s companies and business interests span the globe.

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Taxation experts see 'red flags' in Trump tax returns: 'There's fishy ... (Fortune)

Former President Donald Trump is putting a positive spin on the recently released tax returns he tried for years to keep hidden. Andrew Harnik, File—AP Photo.

In October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that contradicted the image Trump had tried to sell of himself as a self-made businessman. The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 — more than two years into his presidency — when the Ways and Means chairman, Rep. The rink, an early Trump Organization jewel run through a contract with New York City’s government, reported a loss of $1.3 million in 2015 despite taking in $9.3 million in revenue, according to the tax returns. The release marks the latest setback for Trump, who has been mired in investigations, including federal and state inquiries into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The rink turned a $298,000 profit in 2016, but was back to melting cash in each of the next four years. [Supreme Court](https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-donald-trump-business-john-roberts-congress-8ea516dace48875ad7c5dd472dd16dcf) as Trump persistently rejected efforts to share details about his financial history — counter to the practice of transparency followed by all his predecessors in the post-Watergate era. Trump reported a total of $2.6 million in losses from Wollman Rink over the six years made public. They show how Trump used the tax code to lower his tax obligation and reveal details about foreign accounts, charitable contributions and the performance of some of his highest-profile business ventures, which had largely remained shielded from public scrutiny. Trump, according to the filings, reported having bank accounts in China, Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2015 through 2017, even as he was commander in chief. Starting in 2018, however, he only reported an account in the U.K. In 2019 and 2018 he reported writing checks for about $500,000 in donations. Martin, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

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