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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon the greatest Con claims his golf courses are worth tens of millions. Until the tax bill arrives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-much-does-trump-claim-his-golf-courses-are-worth-it-depends-who-needs-to-know/2016/08/21/71828f3a-5f3c-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html<snip>
When Donald Trump submitted financial disclosure forms to election regulators, he bragged that his portfolio included some of the finest and most iconic properties in the world. Among them was Trump National Golf Club Jupiter in Jupiter, Fla., which Trump valued at more than $50 million.
That came as a surprise to officials in Palm Beach County, where the golf course is located. A few months earlier, for the third straight year, Trumps attorney had gone to court to argue that, for the sake of calculating his tax bill, the property was worth no more than $5 million.
It is not unusual for corporations and other property owners to aggressively petition for lower taxes, and differences between the market value of a business and the assessed taxable value of its real estate are commonplace. Nor is there a legal issue for Trump in the gaps between his federal disclosures and local filings, according to ethics experts, because the disclosure forms are designed to show potential conflicts of interest not to provide precise estimates of asset values.
But tax analysts say its rare for values to shift as much as those of Trumps clubs. Its also unusual that a business owner would provide potentially contradictory information in a different forum, as Trump has done with his financial disclosure.
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Don the greatest Con claims his golf courses are worth tens of millions. Until the tax bill arrives. (Original Post)
malaise
Aug 2016
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spanone
(135,830 posts)1. K&R...
applegrove
(118,639 posts)2. That is one reason why he will not release his tax returns.
malaise
(268,967 posts)3. Indeed
and there are several others
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)4. While the MSM Goes Out Of Its Way To Invent Clinton Scandals...
...Don the Con gets a free pass on some pretty obvious fraud. For purposes of drawing investors, Trump brags about the value of his golf courses. But when it comes time to pay taxes, Trump claims that his courses are barely worth the dirt they are built on.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)5. Now there's some depreciation I can appreciate.