Taxes tell you nothing. You couldn’t figure out what he owes to whom based on tax returns. Trump is fighting this on principal.
“Taxes tell you nothing. You couldn’t figure out what he owes to whom based on tax returns. “
Tax returns tell you a lot. As a retired forensic CPA I’ve torn tax returns apart many times in courtroom testimony. While Trumps return is very complex, after years of preparing returns you learn to reverse engineer the return to the transactions being reported.
I am sure they will go after the workpapers done for the return and any audit representations. His actual books and records are probably also getable. Of course, he can keep litigating each thing from now to the end of time. Warren Buffet had a tax case that dragged on for over ten years.