Donald Trump
The President of the United States Donald trump in 2005, paid taxes in the amount of $ 38 million to more than $ 150 million of income. As reported Reuters, said on Tuesday, March 14, the White house, responding to a message to MSNBC that the channel has two pages of tax statements.
MSNBC presenter Rachel Maddow said that he had received documents from journalist David Cay Johnston. He himself during her show said that he had received papers in the mail.
According to the channel information, trump has paid taxes at an actual rate of 25 percent. The white house said in a statement that trump, as head of the firm, is obliged “to pay no more taxes than required by law.”
Trump has written off $ 100 million as losses to reduce the Federal tax. The white house explained that trump has taken into account the “large-scale depreciation for the building.”
The white house accused the journalist that in pursuit of ratings it violated a law prohibiting the unauthorized publication of Federal tax returns. Maddow, in turn, said that such a right comes from the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, reports Associated Press.
Previously, trump has refused to divulge their tax returns, saying that his taxes were audited by the internal revenue Service of the United States. It was reported that in some periods of time the tramp did not pay Federal income taxes. We are talking about at least two years in the late 1970s. In October it became known that trump in 1995 declared significant losses, which allowed him to avoid paying Federal income taxes in the next 18 years.
During the September presidential debate, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton criticized trump for what he did not pay any Federal income taxes.