If The IRS Plays Politics With Tax-Exempts, President Trump Is Holding A Smoking Tweet
But there’s a nontechnical problem, too, which is in many ways worse. President Trump seems to want to emulate the worst aspects of President Nixon. Nixon tried to use the IRS to attack his enemies. And Trump wants to use the IRS to attack people and organizations with which he disagrees. Fortunately, there are protections in place making it hard for him to use the IRS this way. But he’s proven particularly effective at ignoring and subverting norms; this is one that I hope he doesn’t manage to subvert
What Mary L Trump Needed Was Forensic Accounting
In 2017, Mary was approached by the New York Times. She told them that she did not have any documentation, but they suggested that the attorney might. As it turned out there was a trove of documents, which she turned over to the Times.
According to her account, those documents would prove that her grandfather’s estate was worth a billion dollars.
Taking this at face value, the question is why were there not forensic accountants and independent appraisers going through those boxes before settlement? No offense to the Times, but they probably would have figured it out a lot quicker than a team of investigative reporters.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.