#tax returns

[nodynasty4us]

From the December 22, 2023 article:

The report stated that the Haley campaign has danced around questions about her paid appearances, with Stanley-Becker writing that a “Haley spokesperson said the campaign does not have transcripts of Haley’s paid speeches because most took the form of question-and-answer sessions. Haley also has not released her recent tax returns. The spokesperson said she intends to but did not respond to questions about when.”

That contrasts notably with Haley in 2016 demanding, “Donald Trump, show us your tax returns!” while also dragging his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton into the attack by complaining, “We have two presidential candidates that refuse to disclose information: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.”

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[saywhat-politics]

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[jewishdragon]

im CRYING WHAT. I was just checking my NPR app and saw this...

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Steve Brodner

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 15, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

APR 16, 2024

April 15 is a curiously fraught day in American history.

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down a rebellion in the southern states.

In 1865, Lincoln breathed his last at 7:22 a.m., and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who adored the president, said, “Now he belongs to the ages.”

In 1912 the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.

In 1920, two security guards in Braintree, Massachusetts, were murdered on this date; Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would be accused of the crime, convicted, and, in 1927, executed.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color line in baseball’s major leagues.

In 2013, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264 others.

And on April 15, 2024, the criminal case of The People of New York v. Donald J. Trump began in Manhattan. 

For the first time in history, a former president is facing criminal prosecution. 

The case has been dubbed a “hush money” case by the media, but it is really a case about election interference. In 2016, shortly after the Access Hollywood tape in which then-candidate Trump boasted of sexually assaulting women became public, Trump allegedly falsified business records of the Trump Organization to hide payments to individuals who possessed damaging stories about him, especially about his behavior with women, before the election.

Then–Trump fixer Michael Cohen paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had had an affair with Trump, $130,000 through a shell company. He also set up a $150,000 payment from the publisher of the National Enquirer to Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also claimed to have had an affair with Trump. That money would give the National Enquirer exclusive rights to the story, meaning they could decline to publish it and she could not take it elsewhere. This practice is known as “catch-and-kill.” 

Trump then allegedly falsified business records to reimburse Cohen for “legal expenses.” Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying those records. The case might last as long as 8 weeks.

In many ways, this trial is a vindication of the rule of law. Despite his many attempts to delay it, a former president is facing accountability for his actions just as any American should.

The trial schedule reflected that standard practice. Presiding judge Juan Merchan set out the terms of the trial, covering what information the jury can hear about Trump and reminding Trump that, per the laws of New York, if he fails to appear in court as required, a warrant will be issued for his arrest. 

But as jury selection began today, it was also clear that this is no normal trial. The names of the jurors will not be released outside the courtroom out of concerns for their safety, underscoring the degree to which Trump has urged his supporters to violence. And the country is so deeply divided over Trump and his movement that more than half of the first batch of jurors were excused when they said they could not judge the case impartially. No jurors were chosen today.

Trump has used this case—like his others—to try to undermine the rule of law. Rarely arguing that he didn’t commit any of the offenses for which he was charged in four different cases—two civil, two criminal—he has insisted instead that he is being unfairly prosecuted. The Democrats have rigged the judicial system against him, he repeatedly claims, and enough of his loyalists have bought that idea that today some of them urged Trump supporters in the jury pool to undermine the rule of law by lying to get on the jury, then refusing to convict (a plea that observers noted sounded like jury tampering). 

Trump’s effort to signal that he remains disgusted by the charges against him continued today. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman noted that “[s]hortly before court adjourned for the day, Trump’s campaign sent out a fundraising email falsely claiming he had just stormed out of court.” But it was notable that only a few dozen of his supporters showed up at the court today, and they did not stay long. 

Trump has also refused to stop attacking the judge and other participants in the trial despite a gag order imposed by the judge. Today, even as prosecutors were asking Judge Merchan to find Trump in contempt for violating the gag order, Trump posted a video in which one of his allies attacked the judge’s wife as well as primary witness Michael Cohen. 

Judge Merchan has scheduled a hearing on potential violations of the gag order for the morning of April 23.

Trump is trying to undermine the rule of law not only out of apparent fear of the outcome of his trials, but also because his appearance in court is likely to hurt his popularity. Last month an Ipsos poll showed that 32% of respondents said a conviction in this case would make them less likely to support Trump for the presidency. And that is before we have heard any of the new evidence that various sources have said we will hear, and which, by the nature of the case, is likely to be sordid. 

Seeing Trump treated like any defendant is almost certain to damage his brand as a man who commands his surroundings. Today, Haberman noted: “One thing that is striking: Trump has used the previous court appearances in other cases to project an image of grandeur. That is hard to do in this dingy courtroom, which smells slightly off and where he is an island amid a sea of people.”

Further, the public nature of this trial will make it harder for Trump to present himself only through carefully curated appearances. Haberman also noted that Trump, who has repeatedly attacked President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” appeared to fall asleep during today’s proceedings. “Repeatedly, his head would fall down,” Haberman said. “He didn’t pay attention to a note his lawyer…passed him. His jaw kept falling on his chest and his mouth kept going slack.” (While Trump was nodding off in court, President Biden was meeting in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Mohammed Shyaa al-Sudani of the Republic of Iraq, and then with Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic.)

Outside of this case, Trump’s image as a wealthy man is also crumbling. Today was the day by which Trump’s lawyers needed to prove that the $175 million appeals bond he posted against the $454 million judgment in the fraud case would really secure the judgment. Late tonight, his lawyers filed their justification of the bond, insisting it was secure and saying there was no need for the hearing about it, scheduled for April 22. Legal analysts on social media immediately found errors in the document.

Trump’s lawyers also filed paperwork today with the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue more than 20 million more shares of common stock in the Trump Media & Technology Group. The price of the company’s stock has been dropping since the spike after the initial public offering of March 26. Upon today’s news it dropped another 18%. It has dropped 62% since public trading began. 

Although news from Manhattan took up most of the oxygen today, the Commerce Department also made a major announcement: through the CHIPS and Science Act it is investing up to $6.4 billion in a Samsung Electronics chip manufacturing and research cluster in Taylor, Texas. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the two proposed factories will create at least 17,000 construction and 4,500 manufacturing jobs.  

In addition to its historical significance, April 15 is also Tax Day. Biden reinstated the tradition of voluntarily releasing tax returns after Trump ended it, and today Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff all released their taxes, revealing that their salaries make up most of their income. 

Ken Thomas and Ashlea Ebeling of the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump campaign did not answer questions about whether Trump would release his tax returns.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[yeahiwasintheshit]

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Filing my taxes with a free software, it asks me to confirm my identity by providing them info from my 2022 returns. To access that info I had to create an account on the IRS website which asked me to upload my driver's license and take a video selfie which took over an hour because upload speeds at my apartmemt are terrible, only to be told that my phone number was invalid. I've never used another phone number with the IRS, so now I'm on hold for a video call to do the exact same drivers license/selfie song and dance, but it's Sunday, so I'm 1000% sure that when the "estimated wait time" counter reaches 0 they'll tell me there are no representatives available to do my video call. I'll have to do this all again tomorrow.

Fuck.

#irs #taxes #tax returns #filing taxes #tax season #jumping through hoops #fuck my life

[sbrown82]

The Jan 6 Committee is officially referring Donald Trump to DOJ for violating: 

Obstruction of an official proceeding

Conspiracy to defraud the United States

Conspiracy to make a false statement

Inciting, assisting or aiding/comforting an insurrection

First they’re backing criminal charges against the orange one, and then another committee might decide to release his tax returns? That fool sure has a hell of week ahead of him!

#donald trump #politics #democracy #republicans #corruption #house panel #jan. 6 investigation #jan. 6 insurrection #capitol #tax returns #how unfortunate

[saywhat-politics]

The Trump Organization also collected millions in income from more than a dozen foreign nations while Trump was president, according to his tax returns.

Donald Trump, in response to a question during a 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden, insisted that he closed down his bank account in China before his first campaign. But six years’ worth of Trump’s tax records, released Friday, reveal that wasn’t true.

“[I] had an account open, and I closed it,” Trump said with some irritation to moderator Kristen Welker, NBC White House correspondent, in the final debate of the campaign in October 2020. “I closed it before I even ran for president, let alone became president.”

#donald trump #2016 presidential campaign #tax returns

[nodynasty4us]

Bay Buchanan is a conservative political commentator, was Treasurer of the United States under Reagan, and is a sister of former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. From her July 2, 2023 opinion piece:

American taxpayers have every reason to believe that the IRS — a revenue agency — would attempt to keep their tax liability as high as possible, unlike a market service, whose incentive is to look for ways to save taxpayers money. Moreover, the government isn’t renowned for its effectiveness in operating technology.

She also seems to be unhappy that the IRS is planning to build a prototype system when Congress only told them to do a study. This is giving me a bad flashback to a time at my job where a business analyst complained that I had delivered a pilot project when she wanted a proof of concept.

#tax returns #irs #what i think

[coolwali]

Tax Heaven 3000 is Wild:

This game stars a cute Anime Girl called Iris (as in IRS) who wants to grow closer to you and help you with your 2022 US Federal Taxes. You search for Deductions while searching for love.

Your rival in the game is Turbotax:

The game is made by the art collective MSCHF (pronounced "mischief,") that are known for making satirical products with social commentary. Like cologne that smells like WD-40, the big Froot Loops, The Big Astro Boy Boots and Chair Simulator

The game got removed from Steam but is available on Itch

Source: Wolfborg- This Dating Sim Files Your Taxes

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[tomorrowusa]

Trump kept saying that he couldn’t release his tax returns because the IRS was auditing them.

As it turns out, the IRS didn’t even start to audit his returns until April of 2019 and even then barely touched them. They never really finished the audit. And the kicker is that the IRS 2019 audit didn’t start until the exact same day a House committee asked to see Trump’s tax returns. 

Trump filed returns in 2017 for the two previous tax years, but the IRS began auditing those filings only in 2019 — the first on the same day in April the Ways and Means Committee requested access to his taxes and any associated audits, a report by the panel said. The IRS has yet to complete those audits, it said, and the agency started auditing his filings covering his income while president only after he left office.

The revelation could transform the political context of the committee’s nearly four-year fight to obtain information about Trump’s taxes and any related audits. Its chair, Rep. Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, had said the panel needed the data to assess the IRS’ mandatory presidential audit program, but Trump’s lawyers and Republicans called that a pretext for a politically motivated fishing expedition.

The suggestion of dysfunction in the auditing program was an early takeaway in what could be a series of disclosures related to the release of Trump’s returns.

It’s clear why the required audit got such a low priority at the IRS.

Starting in 2018, the IRS was run by a Trump appointee, Charles P. Rettig, who left the post last month. In 2016, Rettig, then a tax lawyer in Beverly Hills, California, published a column in Forbes that defended Trump’s decision not to release his taxes as a candidate.

The IRS did not immediately comment on the matter after the disclosure late Tuesday. But Neal said that when the committee had inquired, “Rettig said at different points that they were simply outgunned” and that the IRS said it lacked specialists capable of assessing Trump’s filings.

A Trump appointee claimed that the IRS was “outgunned” and unable to process the Trump audit. So the Biden administration wants to fund the hiring of 87,000 new IRS employees through 2031 so that the IRS won’t be understaffed and overwhelmed for the rest of this decade. Trump Republicans have objected to these new hirings and tried to distort the narrative to claim falsely that these are agents who would go after the middle class.

In fact, for about the past 100 years the GOP has been trying to keep the rich from having to pay their fair share in taxes. Tax breaks for the filthy rich are usually camouflaged as “economic stimulus”. So keeping the IRS overburdened and understaffed keeps it from looking into the returns of billionaires like Donald Trump.

#donald trump #tax returns #irs audit #trump administration #richard e. neal #charles p. rettig #underfunding the irs #tax breaks for the filthy rich #billionaires

[stevensalerno]

TAX DAY tomorrow!

Posted here are a couple recent drawings I created reflecting on TAX DAY -the annual (and usually depressing) payment to a host of various taxes… Chin up!

#taxes #tax day #tariffis #IRS #United States Treasury #Taxes Due #Tax Payements #Tax Returns #illustration #Steven Salerno #stevensalerno.com