Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years Documents Show

Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years, Documents Show

Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million.

And yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes, according to confidential financial documents reviewed by The New York Times.

His low tax bills are the result of a common tax-minimizing maneuver that, year after year, generated millions of dollars in losses for Mr. Kushner, according to the documents. But the losses were only on paper — Mr. Kushner and his company did not appear to actually lose any money. The losses were driven by depreciation, a tax benefit that lets real estate investors deduct a portion of the cost of their buildings from their taxable income every year.

Mr. Trump has broken with decades of tradition by refusing to release his tax returns. But portions of a 1995 tax return previously published by The Times show trends similar to the one visible in the documents detailing Mr. Kushner’s finances. Mr. Trump at the time reported nearly $916 million in losses, which could have permitted him to avoid any federal income taxes for almost two decades.

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Sure, this is legal according to the tax "reform" bill the Republicans passed benefiting the rich.

Developers might have to pay capital gains taxes if they sell their properties. But the Kushners, like others in the real estate business, often avoid that tax, too, by using the proceeds of sales to buy more properties within a certain time window.

At least in part because of that perk, the Kushners’ property sales in the period covered by the documents — totaling about $2.3 billion, according to Real Capital Analytics, a research firm — generated little or no taxable income for Mr. Kushner.

Last year’s tax legislation eliminated that benefit for all industries but one: real estate.

 

It's called a retained corporate loss. The losses incurred can be used against profitable years to reduce taxes in the future. It's been tax law for decades. It didn't start this January. Think, man, think! How could Trump avoid federal taxes starting in 1995 if the law was only just passed in December 2017?! Do you know what you're talking about?!



Oh boy. I'm calling you on this one. Show us this law that says it I buy more property I can avoid taxes. Seriously, how does this IRS (or anyone) know the origins of the money used to buy property?



How confused are you? You claim last year's tax legislation enabled Trump to avoid taxation from 1995 onwards and now you are saying a portion of last year's legislation dealing with capital gains related to property sales was not eliminated. Make up your mind!!!


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Notice this article pointed out that this deduction was taken away for every industry EXCEPT REAL ESTATE. One guess as to why that was excluded.