NY Times: Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

I have no idea what you mean by this.

Anyway, my point was this statement:

There is no shortage of clever tax avoidance tricks that have been blessed by either the courts or the I.R.S. itself. The richest Americans almost never pay anything close to full freight.

Is an inaccurate opinion. It is not news. It is Fake News.

If tax avoidance "tricks" have been blessed by the IRS and the courts then they are legitimate. They are not "tricks." "Full freight" is simply a mythical number that the writer has conceived in their head because they perceive the taxation of the rich is unfair. How can there possibly be "full freight" if the IRS says the techniques used by the rich to reduce their taxes are legitimate?

 

Please be accurate. Don*ld Tr*mp is a "self-made STABLE financial genius".

The whole "myth" thing is just debating politics.

 

What class would that be.....oh I know, the thugs, thieves & grafters.

 

Seems to me that most political posts on here are biased.

 

Amazon avoid their taxes as well, as do Google, Starbucks etc.

 

Two wrongs don't make a right. It makes two wrongs.

 

Yes, and a great deal more writing as well, which is why it is inadvisable to simply take something at face value. In the case of the OP article, there is virtually no merit to it, as many have pointed out.

 

Again, no. They demonstrated nothing in the article. They made claims of having documents and of having correctly evaluated them. But they did not demonstrate anything illegal. This does not mean there was nothing illegal, but the article is entirely unhelpful in determining such, and appears to be intended as a hit piece. Given the source, this is unsurprising.

 

...only as a first step...

 

Exactly