Stop Telling Me To Drink On St. Patrick’s Day
My St. Patrick's Day crusade which started out positively is turning nasty. The original idea was that people of Irish descent on the day that the common cultural has...
No, President Trump Didn’t Escape Income Taxes For 18 Years
Of course it is mostly explained by the alternative minimum tax (AMT) which shows up on Line 45. Even though the AMT is reflected as an add-on to the regular tax, it is actually a parallel system with fewer deductions and credits, slower depreciation and a lower rate. A reasonable inference from the $36,571,795 on Line 46 is that Trump’s Alternative Minimum Taxable income was in the $130 million neighborhood. He would have had a different net operating loss for AMT purposes than for regular tax purposes and there might be substantial depreciation difference. Form 6251 would explain it.
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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.