Posted on 09/27/2020 9:18:25 PM PDT by Helicondelta
President Trump’s confidential tax records from 2005 have allegedly been leaked.
They show he paid $36,142,505 in annual taxes that year.
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"$36 million in taxes? You a sucka Donald!"
It didn’t come from the IRS. They wouldn’t stamp it “Client Copy”. No one is a “client” of the IRS. It would be stamped “Taxpayer Copy” if stamped at all.
So this came from Trump, or from his accountant. IF, it’s real. This would be very easy to make up.
And the thing is, this tells someone virtually NOTHING.
If he received any form of employee compensation from his company, then he’s had taxes withheld and “paid” taxes.
When the Times publishes these stupid stories with no evidence or sources, its impossible to know WHO they mean when they say “Trump”. You have to know that to have an intelligent conversation. Are they talking about the MAN or one of his entities?
As a CPA with a masters in Taxation, I’d find it very hard to believe that the MAN paid no tax. Even still if all the taxes came from money Melania made.
Look at line 75, Amount you owe. It is NOT $36,142,505.
Then look at the very bottom of the page where two additional items were added on. “TOTAL DUE 2,450,597” THAT is the amount President Trump had to pay.
The “Client Copy” stamp would indicate this came from President Trump, or more likely from the tax preparer.
Yeah and the Clintons were taking tax write offs for donating Bill’s used underwear to charity.
What taxes did they avoid by donating to the Clinton foundation? The money was then kicked back to them as I understand it in payments for Chelsea’s wedding and pay offs to Clinton friends and lackeys to keep them on board for Hillary’s presidential run.
Exactly
Please look at the link I posted above in No. 17 —this 2005 tax return looks to be recycled from Rachel Maddow’s big reveal in 2017 -—and that turned out to be a dud. I guess the lame stream media thinks that we have short term memory loss like Joltin’ Joe.....
I don’t care if he paid zero.
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Right? He’s for low taxes. Its not as if he’s a Marxist out here screaming about raising taxes and he personally isn’t paying. BTW...lets see these Marxists like Pelosi’s tax returns. She has been making policy for decades, shouldn’t we know about HER private funds?
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thanks for my new tag line :-)
Then look at the very bottom of the page where two additional items were added on. “TOTAL DUE 2,450,597” THAT is the amount President Trump had to pay.
Have you ever paid taxes in your entire life, or do you live in your mother's basement still collecting an allowance?
Look at line 71 -- he has already paid $36,142,505 in 2005.
The TOTAL DUE of $2,450,597 is IN ADDITION to the $36,142,505 he had ALREADY PAID that year.
I assume the NYSlimes was also given this year’s data but due to journalistic integrity chose not to include it in their informative piece.
The cheat!/s
It doesn’t matter the amount, I just want to know if it was his “fair share”.
It is stamped “client copy” so it is likely it either came from Trump’s office or from his accounting firm. It is unsigned. FWIW, we always got 2 sets from our CPA, one to sign and mail and one stamped “client copy” for the files. At least, back in 2005 era. Now, it comes electronically.
Bezos likely will be paying a lot in taxes now that he’s cashed out some of his stock. But guys like Bezos and Musk and others make all their money from stock appreciation and stock grants, and no taxes are due until they actually sell the stock or options. Since Amazon and Tesla and others like them have appreciated in value so greatly in the market, it is very easy for them to just borrow cash and pledge their shares against the loan. Later on, they may even get to deduct some of the interest... which is probably cheaper overall given how much those stocks have appreciated over the years.
Then, they may also get to write off their ‘capital investment’ in their rocket ships as I assume those are money losing ventures.
So someone who works for Trump likely leaked it?
Seems reasonable to guess. I guess if Trump wanted to defuse some of this for whatever reason, he could leak returns that are past their audit date - especially ones that show huge tax payments. But these could also have come from the cleaning crew rummaging through the files after hours - either his offices or that of his accountants? Ever see the film Wall Street?
If important files like this are in getting distance of a cleaning crew, you have really poor security practices.
Obviously, it's still wrong to take them, but secure documents should be secure.
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