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i’m currently 380 pages into his 2015 return. it’s interesting how many schedule c sole proprietorships he included when he could have just aggregated a lot of them. 
this return confirmed my biggest assumption: he has a huge net operating loss he’s been carrying forward from a year previous to 2015. $105 million was available for use in 2015, and was utilized against his almost $28 million of income from debts canceled in 2015. 
also interesting that he has a $21 million charitable donation that is a very common audit risk among higher net worth individuals: a conservation easement. the idea is that you have a pretty piece of property or historic building, and you enter into an agreement to preserve its current state. because you are releasing your right to do whatever you want with the property, you get a tax deduction for the value of that right so long as you enter into the agreement with a qualifying organization. the proposed value of the right he released in 2015 was $21 million. irs aggressively audits these easement donations. or at least, they say they do.
So the checks and balances supposedly to catch this kind of stuff was basically disabled/crippled/idle the majority of Trump being president. >

The fact that someone could be this fucking crooked and still become POTUS shows our system is fucking broken.
The dude couldn't get enough security clearance to watch a sausage get made, yet he became POTUS. >

What always gets me is that the people who cry out against corruption are the same people who are okay with supporting uber corrupt people who take money from hard working citizens. >

Their main motivation for electing him was, "at least he's not black".
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Or a woman. That was his main accomplishment in 2016...he had a penis, however tiny. >

Accountant redditors be like "it's my time"