The White House Now Says, Nope, You're Never Going To See Trump's Tax Returns
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What's the big deal about his tax returns? It isn't important to how he governs the country. Neither are any of the other things that people are saying about what he has said and done.
What he says now is not even that important; it's what he DOES that will count.
It's silly, people saying he should talk like all the other mealy-mouthed Presidents and politicians. If he says things that offends somebody, deal with it. He isn't in there to prevent hurt feelings.
What he says now is not even that important; it's what he DOES that will count.
It's silly, people saying he should talk like all the other mealy-mouthed Presidents and politicians. If he says things that offends somebody, deal with it. He isn't in there to prevent hurt feelings.
Yeah, it's funny, it would probably take the average literate person several days to pore over Trump's taxes in order to get a full understanding of them. I get bored just taking 5 minutes to read over mine to check it before submitting. ACTUALLY I would bet I could pore over it for a day or two and still be clueless about his finances.
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I wonder how the Haitians feel about hillary's foundation's tax returns
"The Clinton Foundation’s $20 million off-the-books mystery
he inner workings of a mysterious off-the-books arm of the Clinton Foundation were partially revealed in the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The little-known Haiti Development Fund, an LLC incorporated in Delaware in August 2010, was created by the Clinton Foundation with an initial endowment of $20 million from shady Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
The Fund was supposed to supply desperately needed seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after an earthquake devastated the country in January 2010.
But The Post found only one project that it funded with a fraction of the start-up cash.
Since the Fund is incorporated as a private entity and not a non-profit, it is not subject to the same disclosure rules as a public charity.
And the Clinton Foundation never disclosed the Fund as a “related entity” on its tax filings as required by IRS rules. It was only after the Clinton Foundation, under mounting scrutiny and media pressure, “voluntarily” decided to refile five years’ worth of tax returns in 2015 that the Fund appears on the forms.
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Carlos Slim (left) and Frank Giustra (right) pose with a farmer in El Salvador.Reuters
The for-profit Fund was managed by Jean Marc Villain, who was going through a bankruptcy in 2010 when he was working for the Clinton Foundation. The non-profit paid him an annual salary of $100,000 to oversee the Fund, according to pay records attached to the Podesta emails.
The Florida Elections Commission found that Villain also had violated state laws in 2001 when he did not file donation reports for the Haitian-American Political Caucus, a political committee where he was listed as treasurer.
“This cries out for an audit or an investigation,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center a Virginia-based watchdog group. “Its director was in bankruptcy and there’s almost nothing in the public record showing what happened to the millions of dollars it supposedly was going to use to help poor Haitians.”
Giustra, one of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation, is also no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he and President Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic’s authoritarian leader. Days after that meeting, Giustra acquired uranium assets in three of the country’s state-run mines — a venture valued at more than $3 billion. Both Giustra and Clinton have denied that the former US president helped him cement the Kazakh deal.
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Jean Marc Villain
At least some of the Haiti Fund cash ended up with Haitian entrepreneurs. According to a Clinton Foundation press release, the Fund made its first investment of $415,000 in a group of artisans in the Caribbean country, in August 2011. That year, the Clinton Foundation’s tax filings show $307,000 going to the Fund.
But in that same year Villain had bigger projects in mind requiring more than $12 million, the emails show. In November 2011, he requested a meeting with Podesta, who was filling in as head of the Clinton Foundation.
“I planned to send notice to the [Investment] Committee to schedule a meeting to consider taking action on a pending transaction and the presentation of 8 investment opportunities … totalling $12.3 million with a potential of 2,775 prospective new jobs,” writes Villain in an email to Podesta’s secretary.
In a return email, Podesta said he would get Villain an answer the next day.
But it’s not clear from Clinton Foundation tax filings if the cash ever made it to Villain’s projects, or what those projects were.
Villain left the Clinton Foundation in 2013 and now works for a hospital in South Carolina, according to his LinkedIn page. He could not be reached for comment.
The Clinton Foundation did not return repeated requests for comment."
http://nypost.com/2016/11/05/the-clinton-foundations-off-the-books-20-million-mystery/
well well well...
looky here
"The Clinton Foundation’s $20 million off-the-books mystery
he inner workings of a mysterious off-the-books arm of the Clinton Foundation were partially revealed in the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The little-known Haiti Development Fund, an LLC incorporated in Delaware in August 2010, was created by the Clinton Foundation with an initial endowment of $20 million from shady Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
The Fund was supposed to supply desperately needed seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after an earthquake devastated the country in January 2010.
But The Post found only one project that it funded with a fraction of the start-up cash.
Since the Fund is incorporated as a private entity and not a non-profit, it is not subject to the same disclosure rules as a public charity.
And the Clinton Foundation never disclosed the Fund as a “related entity” on its tax filings as required by IRS rules. It was only after the Clinton Foundation, under mounting scrutiny and media pressure, “voluntarily” decided to refile five years’ worth of tax returns in 2015 that the Fund appears on the forms.
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Carlos Slim (left) and Frank Giustra (right) pose with a farmer in El Salvador.Reuters
The for-profit Fund was managed by Jean Marc Villain, who was going through a bankruptcy in 2010 when he was working for the Clinton Foundation. The non-profit paid him an annual salary of $100,000 to oversee the Fund, according to pay records attached to the Podesta emails.
The Florida Elections Commission found that Villain also had violated state laws in 2001 when he did not file donation reports for the Haitian-American Political Caucus, a political committee where he was listed as treasurer.
“This cries out for an audit or an investigation,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center a Virginia-based watchdog group. “Its director was in bankruptcy and there’s almost nothing in the public record showing what happened to the millions of dollars it supposedly was going to use to help poor Haitians.”
Giustra, one of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation, is also no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he and President Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic’s authoritarian leader. Days after that meeting, Giustra acquired uranium assets in three of the country’s state-run mines — a venture valued at more than $3 billion. Both Giustra and Clinton have denied that the former US president helped him cement the Kazakh deal.
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Jean Marc Villain
At least some of the Haiti Fund cash ended up with Haitian entrepreneurs. According to a Clinton Foundation press release, the Fund made its first investment of $415,000 in a group of artisans in the Caribbean country, in August 2011. That year, the Clinton Foundation’s tax filings show $307,000 going to the Fund.
But in that same year Villain had bigger projects in mind requiring more than $12 million, the emails show. In November 2011, he requested a meeting with Podesta, who was filling in as head of the Clinton Foundation.
“I planned to send notice to the [Investment] Committee to schedule a meeting to consider taking action on a pending transaction and the presentation of 8 investment opportunities … totalling $12.3 million with a potential of 2,775 prospective new jobs,” writes Villain in an email to Podesta’s secretary.
In a return email, Podesta said he would get Villain an answer the next day.
But it’s not clear from Clinton Foundation tax filings if the cash ever made it to Villain’s projects, or what those projects were.
Villain left the Clinton Foundation in 2013 and now works for a hospital in South Carolina, according to his LinkedIn page. He could not be reached for comment.
The Clinton Foundation did not return repeated requests for comment."
http://nypost.com/2016/11/05/the-clinton-foundations-off-the-books-20-million-mystery/
well well well...
looky here
Oh that's going to work. lol
It's not a big deal and Americans don't care.
Do you know his income? If you know his income, you'll know what he pays in taxes.
Let's pretend your frontal lobe isn't a stain on an LRT. What is his personal income? Learn what it is. Download a tax program and figure it out ya useless meme.
Turbotax will reveal Trump's returns confirmed.
Totally worth the early bird discount. :lol:
So, you believe that he shouldn't be held accountable for any promises he made during the campaign. That's a good thing, because he's not going to be keeping any of them.
Even though I seldom agree with eaglecrack he is correct. No one gives a shyt about corporate taxes.
Haha! Somebody thinks revealing his tax returns will somehow hold him accountable for his campaign promises? O boy! Hahahahaha!
What difference will it make in anybody's life, knowing what taxes Trump paid or hasn't paid or will pay or how much money he earns or has earned?
What difference will it make in anybody's life, knowing what taxes Trump paid or hasn't paid or will pay or how much money he earns or has earned?
If he has a good accountant he didn't pay any personal taxes. If he did the beancounter should be fired.
Someone like Trump probably has a team of tax lawyers handeling his affairs. I'm sure he probably doesn't know his tax liabilities or even personal income himself.
So why did he promise to release them?
You are arguing that he doesn't have to live up to anything he promised to do. I agree that he won't be living up to his promises anyway. You don't seem to understand that we agree on this.
Exactly, people can be assured there are plenty of people at the I.R.S. who will be checking for any shenanigans.