Trump’s taxes turn a spotlight on Ivanka’s own shady business dealings
Donald Trump’s tax returns show he wrote off at least $750,000 in potentially illegal ‘consulting’ payments to Ivanka.
By Daniel Boguslaw - September 29, 2020Donald Trump’s tax returns show he wrote off at least $750,000 in potentially illegal ‘consulting’ payments to Ivanka.
By Daniel Boguslaw - September 29, 2020A blockbuster New York Times report shows Trump only paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected.
By Tana Ganeva - September 28, 2020Trump has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public.
By Associated Press - September 27, 2020Trump’s trademark overspending hits the American people where it hurts: their pocketbooks.
By Donna Provencher - September 16, 2020Also: States join together to fight climate change, and Texas breaks a decades-old voter turnout record.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 17, 2020A capital gains tax holiday would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
By Oliver Willis - July 13, 2020Trump has claimed for years that he would release his tax returns as soon as audits were completed.
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2020The Trump administration ‘has no basis whatsoever to refuse to comply with this request,’ said Rep. Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 07, 2020Trump wants a payroll tax cut — which would do nothing to aid more than 30 million Americans who have been laid off.
By Emily Singer - May 04, 2020Trump falsely said Schumer was responsible for a part of the GOP law that raised taxes on many New Yorkers.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2020Virtually every ocean cruise line serving the United States sails under a foreign flag — but Trump wants to bail them out anyway.
By Josh Israel - March 25, 2020Big business has traditionally spent the bulk of its free cash on buying its own stock.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 23, 2020A payroll tax cut ‘would not be well-targeted to those most vulnerable to economic disruption,” says the Tax Foundation.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 13, 2020Donald Trump went deep and wide in distorting what he’s done in office.
By Associated Press - February 24, 2020Donald Trump lied at his State of the Union when he said veteran Tony Rankins benefitted from the administration’s ‘opportunity zones’ tax breaks.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 14, 2020The White House has informed Congress that Trump will scale back pay raises for federal workers next year to just 1%.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2020‘Mnuchin is either somehow ignorant of mountains of evidence on this front, or he’s being intentionally misleading,’ said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2020The oft-pledged tax cuts for ordinary people somehow just never seem to materialize.
By Josh Israel - January 22, 2020The Republican tax law is working great for big Wall Street banks, but leaving many Americans behind.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 17, 2020Roughly 2 in 3 Americans overall believe the very rich should pay more taxes to support public programs, according to a new poll.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 14, 2020White evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016 — but they still think Trump’s family separation policy is wrong.
By Emily Singer - January 02, 2020Republicans promised that the tax law would be a boon to American workers, but that hasn’t happened.
By Oliver Willis - December 16, 2019The filings reveal discrepancies in how the company reported occupancy rates to tax officials and potential lenders.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 27, 2019Trump was suing to block the law, which would let the House obtain Trump’s state income tax returns.
By Associated Press - November 11, 2019Rather than helping, the 2017 Republican tax law is failing to boost the economy, according to experts.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 30, 2019After a lifetime of opposing taxes, Sen. Richard Burr wants to tax college athletes.
By Oliver Willis - October 29, 2019A handful of billionaires and multimillionaires making a renewed push for the government to raise their taxes.
By Associated Press - October 27, 2019A federal appeals court doesn’t buy Trump’s argument that he can shield his tax returns from investigators.
By Associated Press - October 23, 2019Republicans eliminated the state and local tax deduction, which disproportionally hurt taxpayers in blue states.
By Associated Press - October 22, 2019Del. Tim Hugo is linked to Intuit and H&R Block, two companies that allegedly steered low-income Virginians away from free tax-filing options to increase their profits.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 18, 2019