What we know about Donald Trump’s tax returns
Donald Trump’s tax returns have been released, putting the former president’s financial and business practices in the spotlight as he also faces calls for criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
The partially redacted returns from 2015 to 2020 are nearly 6,000 pages of what the preliminary investigation appears to show were legal but creative accounting strategies to keep his federal tax payments as low as possible.
The committee’s accompanying report points to what it says is a pattern of questionable claims for professional expenses, charitable deductions, what may be “hidden gifts” to his grown children and the fraudulent use of real estate write-offs in New York.
Mr. Trump was also found to have foreign bank accounts in China, the United Kingdom, Ireland and St. Maarten, and paid more taxes abroad than in the United States during his first year in office.
The former president has reacted angrily to the release of the returns, warning that such a precedent would lead to “terrible things for so many people” and cause divisions in the US to “grow even more”.
Stay tuned for our updates on what we know so far
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022, at 1:30 p.m
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022 at 4:30 AM
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022, at 3:30 am
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022 at 2:30 AM
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022 at 1:30 am
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Oliver O’ConnellDecember 31, 2022, at 01:00
