No one seems to answer this, or even ask it!

although to the NYT, and many of us, it may "... look a lot like civil tax fraud...". But it's not.

The rich use a lot of legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes. We may not like it, but the laws are written by the rich. It may look like fraud to us, but how many of us read the actual tax statutes? Most of us can't even figure out the forms for our own taxes without help.

seems like a pretty much cut and dried case of tax fraud.

I can't see how the IRS let this go by. But I don't want to believe there was any malfeasance involved.

I thought more highly of the competency of the IRS examiners.

Found a few properties and forced somecre evaluations that were still to low and missed the majority but since they got millions more than the initial filing thought that they "got most if not all"

I'd hazard a guess that, like the NYC FBI office, the NYC IRS offices will only go after tax evasion if there's more serious crimes involved, or if one "family" gets enough political clout to convince them it's in their best interest to take down the other "family".

There was a question about Giuliani's going after Gotti back in the 80's, 90's...looks like that vacuum was what enabled the Russians and their satellite Eastern European mobsters (Ukrainians, Georgians, etc...) to wrest control of the East Coast operations from the last of the old families that stood up to them.


Haele

It should be 175% of what is underpaid.

THAT still isn't enough!! They gotta STEAL from us ALL!!!

I want to hear "And it WILL cost them"

Could??? Why could? This should not be question, or a doubt...

In NYC all you have to do is find the right guy, and give the right amount of money.
DONE.
And I lived in Manhattan for 15 years, I'm qualified to speak.

To what degree has this con job of a family perpetrated similar frauds overseas? And will any country or local authority do their own deep dive and demand payment of taxes and penalties?

Here's a "thought experiment." Replace the Las Vegas shooter with Trump, without the suicide. Wanna bet he'd be walking free?

And while we're at it, whatever became of David Pecker's safe full of secrets?

I remember when my husband and I were newly self-employed and misfiled out taxes out of ignorance. We were audited and had to go back 7 years and refile. (It turned out to be a big favor because we ended up getting thousands of dollars back.)

making $30,000 a year would never get away with this. The penalties and interest alone should ruin the Trump family. And Donnie? There's no bankruptcy that can save your fat orange ass either. Now this is what should happen. I'm curious to see exactly what does happen.