Trump tax returns

House Democrats released several years' worth of former President Donald Trump's tax returns on Friday, launching what is sure to be another round of ...

Trump’s representatives protested when it was suggested that the IRS bring in two more auditors to help handle the sizable paperwork. Democrats say their investigation of Trump’s taxes and a mandatory presidential audit program will transform accountability for the most powerful person in the country. The six years of joint tax returns filed by Trump and his wife, Melania, — from 2015 to 2020 — number a little over 2,700 pages. Trump’s income swung wildly over the years, according to the returns, ranging from a deficit of $32.4 million in 2016 to a high of $24.4 million in 2018. Another notable item in the returns are interest payments made to Trump from his children: From 2017 through 2020, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Though not necessary illegal, the technique would need to adhere to strict IRS rules and requires documentation of letters sent to Trump’s children stating that the former president is forgiving the loans’ principal. Republicans, who will take over the House on Jan. It also adds to the growing list of political and legal challenges for Trump as he mounts his 2024 campaign for president. He paid $641,931 in 2015, $750 in both 2016 and 2017, and $133,445 in 2019. And with great power comes even greater responsibility.” “They hold power and influence unlike any other American. Six years of Trump’s returns will now be available to tax experts and non-experts, a development that Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen said the former president feared would result in the government levying additional taxes and penalties.

The publication of former President Donald J. Trump's private tax documents comes amid questions about why the I.R.S. failed to fully audit him during his ...

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.

Returns date from 2015 to 2020 and span nearly 6000 pages as former president rails against effort by 'radical left Democrats'

[party-line vote](https://apnews.com/article/videos-9ac33a7c71844b45bd2a88f8969929ce) to make the returns public. “Trump acted as though he had something to hide, a pattern consistent with the recent conviction of his family business for criminal tax fraud. In the long run, Democrats will come to regret it.” Lawyers for the Trump Organization blamed Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer. Running for president in 2016, he promised to release them once he had been audited. [in a statement](https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/4pV2Sre9aV?hids=BrVFJZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=221230-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_of_america&utm_content=ncl-8VvjqaE62B&_nlid=8VvjqaE62B&_nhids=BrVFJZ): “The Democrats should have never done it, the supreme court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people. This is a major failure of the IRS under the prior administration, and certainly not what we had hoped to find.” In November, the supreme court By contrast, there were audits of Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, according to the White House. The couple paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year Trump began his campaign for president. He continued to do so in office. What business was Trump doing in China while he was president?”

The documents shed light on the sources of the president's earnings and the taxes he paid, including in 2020, when he paid nothing in federal income tax. Trump ...

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.

The returns show that Trump paid little, if anything, in income taxes over six years, including the four in which he served as president. Trump lost thousands ...

[facing ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/15/trump-kemp-georgia-2020-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_53)a probe in Georgia, where a Fulton County grand jury was investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in the state. Capitol [referred](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/19/trump-referrals-jan-6-committee/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50) four criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department: obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting or assisting an insurrection and conspiracy to make a false statement. [oversees](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/18/justice-trump-garland-special-counsel/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50) the Justice Department’s criminal probe of Trump’s possible mishandling of classified documents at his Florida home and his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has been conducting a criminal investigation of Trump since summer 2018, has had access to Trump’s tax returns for more than a year and has not charged him. The agent kept notes mentioning two possible adjustments: disqualifying the entire deduction “based on the fact that the appraisal was not a qualified appraisal” or reducing the deduction to $8.95 million. O’Donnell and a detailed report from congressional tax experts, both of which the committee released. (The tax return doesn’t say where Trump traveled to give that speech, which was one of his lowest-paid engagements; he reported making as much as $450,000 as a speaker on other occasions.) ](http://businesses.in/)On his 2017 tax return, Trump claimed business expenses and other losses and deductions in excess of $279.5 million, significantly reducing the amount of tax he owed. The tax returns give some sense of Trump’s earnings from various aspects of his business empire, with money coming in from real estate across the country, his TV acting jobs, aviation, an ice rink, a pageant and a slew of other businesses. [Friday's release from the committee includes thousands of pages of financial documents, which lawmakers made available for the public to download and review.](https://waysandmeans.house.gov/) Many of the foreign locations were places where Trump’s company was set to partner on Trump-branded real estate projects, a lucrative licensing business Trump declined to extricate himself from after he was elected. Trump lost thousands of dollars in income from 2015 to 2017, largely due to net losses tied to real estate and other

Former President Donald J. Trump, who fought for years to keep his returns private, made no charitable donations in 2020, and his own tax law may have cost ...

But the new documents show that the effect of his inheritance in 2018 was far greater: Mr. “Trump acted as though he had something to hide, a pattern consistent with the recent conviction of his family business for criminal tax fraud,” Representative Don Beyer, Democrat of Virginia and a Ways and Means Committee member, said in a news release. But the tax documents show that he made nearly $14 million in tax payments to the federal government over the course of the year. The sales of business properties Mr. But one provision in particular drastically reduced the income tax deductions Mr. But in 2020, his last full year in office, the documents show that Mr. The tax documents released Friday show that Mr. Trump reported nearly $16 million in business losses in 2020, which swamped his other income and left him with no federal income tax liability. Trump paid $1.1 million in federal income taxes during the first three years of his presidency, including just $750 in federal income tax in 2017, his first year in office. He paid no tax in 2020 as his income dwindled and his business losses mounted. In his first three years in office, Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania, as well as business returns for several of the hundreds of companies that make up the real estate mogul’s sprawling business organization.

DECEMBER 30, 2022, UPDATE: UNDATED (AP)- Democrats in Congress have released thousands of pages of former President Donald Trump's tax returns.

The committee obtained six years of Trump’s personal and business tax records while investigating what it said was the Internal Revenue Service’s failure to pursue mandatory audits of Trump on a timely basis during his presidency, as required under the tax agency’s protocol. UNDATED (AP)- A House committee is set to release six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, pulling back the curtain on financial records the Republican former president fought for years to keep secret. 30, 2022), providing the most detailed picture to date of his finances over a six-year period, including his time in the White House, when he fought to keep the information private in a break with [decades of precedent.](https://apnews.com/article/be17fb95a8564a88996d1331ebaf763b) 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. [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. Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the 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. His wages increased from about $14,000 in 2015 to $373,000 in 2017, the filings show. The documents provide the most detailed picture to date of his finances over a six-year period, including his time in the White House, when he fought to keep the information private in a break with decades of precedent. The material shows how Trump used the tax code to lower his tax obligations and it reveals details about foreign accounts and the performance of some of his highest-profile business ventures. 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.

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.

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.

It is not a big mystery why Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns. Just listen to what people close to the real estate developer have said over ...

Now, thousands of people, including the academics and accountants that Trump had so much reason to fear, are ready to take a detailed look at his tax filings. The New York attorney general’s office also got its hands on a set of tax documents—it is now suing Trump and his business in a $250 million fraud case. Within weeks, it had a report outlining several potential tax issues—such as suspicious loans Trump had extended to his children—and exposing the IRS for its gentle treatment of the former president. The Manhattan district attorney fought Trump’s legal team to acquire his tax returns, then convicted Trump’s longtime chief financial officer, as well as his business itself, on a series of criminal charges, including fraud and conspiracy. But the returns of his private foundation were a matter of public record. The former president’s tax information had never been public until Friday—and some of it still remains shielded after the House Ways and Means Committee released years of paperwork.

The Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee has released former President Trump's tax returns from his time in office, ending a multi-year legal ...

The nature of Trump's taxes has been in question since his 2016 campaign when he refused to voluntarily release the information, something We think Democrats will come to regret this, and I think they may regret it sooner than they think." “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people. The high court And with great power comes even greater responsibility." "They hold power and influence unlike any other American.

Six years of Donald Trump's federal tax returns released on Friday show the former president paid very little in federal income taxes the first and last ...

The Tax Foundation found that property tax deductions capped in 2017 had previously accounted for about a third of all state and local tax deductions. And that didn’t take place until the fall of 2019, after Chairman Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, first sent a letter asking the IRS for Trump’s returns and tax information. Some Democrats criticized the 2017 tax law’s SALT cap for taking aim at residents in the Northeast and the West who have some of the highest property taxes in the country. Trump reported large donations to charity in 2018 and 2019, helping reduce the amount he owed on millions of dollars in income he reported in those years. 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. By comparison, in 2016 and 2017, Trump was able to deduct significantly more from state and local taxes. The Joint Committee on Taxation raised questions about the accuracy of some enormous charitable deductions Trump claimed in previous years’ tax returns, including large and unsubstantiated cash gifts. And in 2020, Trump said he paid $8.5 million in SALT but claimed the maximum allowable $10,000. In other words, every single dollar – to the dollar – that the company earned was negated by the company’s expenses, such as payroll, fuel and other items. 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. The filings show that the former president maintained foreign bank accounts in countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland and China. For example, his returns show that he carried forward a $105 million loss in 2015 and $73 million in 2016.

Documents related to Trump's tax returns from 2015-2020 have been publicly released by the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.

In 2019, the two reported making $4.4 million and paid $133,445 in taxes. During Trump's first year in office, the couple reported losing $12.9 million and again paid $750 in taxes. Trump and his wife, Melania, also reported charitable donations that slowly decreased over the years. Trump has accused the committee of seeking his taxes under false pretenses, saying the probe is just a politically motivated fishing expedition. The records confirm previous reporting that Trump held a number of foreign bank accounts -- including while in office -- and appeared to have lied about at least one of them. "The great USA divide will now grow far worse.

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.

While Trump paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president, he paid just $750 in 2016 and 2017, according to a ...

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 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 rink turned a $298,000 profit in 2016, but was back to melting cash in each of the next four years. The documents show that Trump’s charitable donations fluctuated during his presidency but, in his final years, represented only a sliver of his income. 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 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. Trump reported a total of $2.6 million in losses from Wollman Rink over the six years made public. Trump said during his 2016 campaign that paying little or no income tax in some years “makes me smart.” While Trump paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president, he paid just $750 in 2016 and 2017, according to a report released last week by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. The documents include individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, along with Trump’s business entities from 2015-2020. Presiding over a routine pro forma session of the House on Friday, Rep. In several years, Trump appears to have paid more in foreign taxes than he did in net U.S.

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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.

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

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

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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.