Where are Trump's tax records?

[duke_john]

Only those who will never vote for Trump want to see his tax returns, so they can argue minutia and "fairness" in an attempt to distract from Hillary's criminal activities.

[wvit1001]

what criminal activities?   so far all I've seen on that are accusations.

[duke_john]

I am a patient man, wvit, but your lies strain my patience.

[gwboolean]

Show me the taxes.  We all know that if he doesn't there is no chance in hell that he is going to be elected.  There isn't a chance anyway, but it is good of Chump to seal the deal.  On second thought, I don't need to see his taxes.  He should continue to refuse to show them.  Go Chump!!!!

[DaBoz]

Lots to be said for letting That Psycotic piss on his shoes while on Ignore, duke. I have noticed a significant drop in responses to his Threads and answers to posts. When he get none, he may seek some help.

[wvit1001]

so you have nothing?

[DaBoz]

See how easy it is,, his shoes are all wet, and I didn't need to read it. Any of his personal attacks or self serving Braggadocio only reflects on His veracity and credibility, and has no impact whatsoever on me.

[Byteryder]

REAL PEOPLE DON'T GIVE A SHIT.

GROW UP

[keep-left]

The Great Trump Tax Mysteries: Is He Hiding Loopholes, Errors, or Something More Serious?

Why won’t Donald Trump release his taxes? An investigation into the G.O.P. candidate’s finances—the extensive deductions he could claim, the F.E.C. filings from his Scottish and Irish golf resorts, and his declarations to the British government—reveals a disturbing pattern of mistakes, hype, and contradictions.

Taxation, in reality, is life,” said Sheldon Cohen, a former commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. “If you know the position a person takes on taxes, you can tell their whole philosophy. The tax code, once you get to know it, embodies all the essence of life: greed, politics, power, goodness.”
A rich person’s tax affairs will tell you lots about him or her—but the reverse is fuzzily true, too. Though Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns, we can get a good idea of what’s in there if we start with what we know about his character and business affairs, then mix these up with the vast rich pudding of loopholes, abatements, and gray areas that wealthy folk in America use to milk the tax system. All this provides an entry into understanding Trump’s bewildering, ever evolving global business affairs, and helps answer some of the great questions of the day. How much is he really worth? Has he broken any laws? How much tax does he pay? Does he use tax havens?

It’s hard to get your arms around Trump’s business conglomerate, which is a patchwork of disparate “artful” deals and raids, strategy changes, bankruptcies, carefully laid plans, and high-energy whims. “I play it very loose,” Trump wrote in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I don’t carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. You can’t be imaginative or entrepreneurial if you’ve got too much structure. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops. There is no typical week in my life.”
Trump isn’t nearly the real-estate player he once was, particularly since some of his companies went through high-profile bankruptcies in the early 1990s. In a ranking of New York condominium developers last September, for instance, Trump didn’t even make the top 20. In Atlantic City, whose real-estate sector he once dominated, the Trump Plaza closed in 2014; he sold the Trump Marina (now the Golden Nugget) in 2011 to Landry’s, a Houston-based gaming-and-restaurant company; and activist investor Carl Icahn now owns the Trump Taj Mahal. (Trump is eager to point out, however, that he made money on his Atlantic City adventure. “I never went bankrupt,” he told me in the first of two telephone interviews. “I made a fortune in A.C., which a lot of people don’t understand.... I used a bankruptcy as a business tool: I made great deals.”)

Many bankers don’t lend to Trump now, burned by what some call “Donald risk,” a reference to the fact that some Wall Street banks have been left with pennies on the dollar through some of his maneuvers. (About his relationship with lenders, Trump says, “We have a lot of cash—we don’t need loans. Every bank wants to do business with us, literally every bank.”) There is still plenty of steel and concrete bearing his name in lights, but much of that is simply him taking licensing income and management fees from the people who actually financed, built, and own these properties. “People who are smart love my licensing deals because you don’t have any risk [and] you make tremendous amounts of cash,” Trump says.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-great-trump-tax-mysteries

[DaBoz]

There are no such thing as "LOOPHOLES".

There are Deduction the IRS allows,  and those they don't. He can not "HIDE" from the IRS. He gets audited every year.

[wvit1001]

George Stephanopoulos pushed back on all of Trump’s claims that he can’t release his tax returns until he the audit of his returns is finished. The wheels started to fall off for Trump when he was asked when he released his tax returns when applying for a casino license, but won’t do so when running for president. Trump answered, “Well, at the time it didn’t make any difference to me. Now it does.”

Stephanopoulos said that every candidate since 1976 has released his tax returns, and pointed out that voters can learn a lot from tax returns.

The Good Morning America host finally got an answer when he said that Trump’s financials don’t show his tax rate. Stephanopoulos asked Trump what is your tax rate? He answered, “It’s none of your business. You’ll see it when I release, but I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”

[keep-left]

The rich are audited every year. Trump is saying he'll release them when the audit ends, but they never end at that level.

Warren Buffet has been audited every year for the last 15 years and has no problem releasing his returns.

Then again, Buffet is not known for nefarious business deals and stiffing his creditors like Trump is known for.

Funny how Trump, for a few years now, has said that if he runs for president, he'd release his returns.

He also thought that Romney and EVERYBODY else running should release their tax records as well,

But now, when it is time for Trump to KEEP HIS WORD and release his records, he won't!!

Why is that now?  Hmmm?