In my lifetime, the tax laws have always been screwy and one of the FIRST things they teach you in Business School is to take every advantage of them. That is part of what separates successful businesses from the 67% that fail in their first year. It would be malfeasance on the part of any businessman to fail to take every legal advantage he can, and for a publicly traded company to voluntarily pay excess tax could be a criminal act and subject to shareholder legal recourse.
Eric Trump gave an interview last night & the comments were that he “owned” the panel (Wolf, Dana?, & someone else). Dana got on Trump’s taxes and was determined to make Eric say if Trump had actually paid taxes. Eric made a mistake IMO, and said he has seen the tax return & she was on him about that like white on rice. He demurred somewhat ... it got very uncomfortable before the video cut off. Eric did do very well until the tax issue came up.
In my opinion, what should be said is that DJT has paid whatever taxes he OWES. If he can arrange his businesses to avoid taxes and does not OWE any, then he pays none. I noticed Eric started qualifying what he was saying with business/corporate vs personal .... I think the end of that interview is going to return to haunt him.
Bottom line, the Trump team needs to figure a way to silence this mess once and for all ... Kaine brought it up AGAIN last night as did the CNN panel .... big distraction & since they keep harping on it, trying to imply Trump is a deadbeat or dishonest or is doing something illegal if he “paid no taxes” and eventually, as with most things “Dem”, if they say it often enough, the sheeple start believing it.