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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa155.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9378876\/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release\/","crawl_time":1774620921,"first_indexed_time":1672410074,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"ca,globalnews!\/news\/9378876\/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release\/ s443","src_root_hash":"18131072723757590355","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Donald Trump’s tax returns released after years long fight with Congress - National | Globalnews.ca","meta_descriptions":["The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Democrats in Congress released six years of former President\nDonald Trump’s\ntax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House.\nThe returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020. They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities.\nTheir release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections.\nStory continues below advertisement\nTrump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.\n“The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\n0:44\nTrump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme\nHe said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.”\nStory continues below advertisement\nThe returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability.\nA report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay $750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly $1 million in 2018, $133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020.\nFor 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly $9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than $58 million for the final year of his term in office.\nGet daily National news\nGet daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\nThe release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s.\nThe disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024.\nStory continues below advertisement\nThe tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland.\nTrump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires.\nTrump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.\nIn October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s.\nA second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.\nIn its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings.\nStory continues below advertisement\nThe IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 _ more than two years into his presidency _ when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns.\nBy comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.\nThe Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts.\nThe House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain.\n1:47\nWhat comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?\nThe measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency.\nStory continues below advertisement\nRepublicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people.\nRep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week.\n“We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t `weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said.\nEvery president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released.\nTrump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access.\nTrump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court.\nStory continues below advertisement\nTrump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010.\nBender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through the Trump Organization.\nThe Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.","attrs_markdown":"[SKIP TO MAIN CONTENT](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9378876\/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release\/#content)\n\nIn the news\n\n- [Havana Syndrome](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11739481\/havana-syndrome-canada-report-response\/)\n- [Spring](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11739244\/spring-forecast-2026\/)\n- [Taylor Frankie Paul](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11739480\/taylor-frankie-paul-ex-files-restraining-order-sole-custody-child\/)\n- [Duggar](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11739362\/joseph-duggar-josh-child-molestation-arrest-false\/)\n\n[Global News Home ![](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/images\/logo-mobile.svg?v=2)](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/)\n\n[Subscribe](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/pages\/email-alerts\/)\n\nSite theme toggle. 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They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities.\n\nRead more:   [Trump tax return details to be made public after U.S. lawmakers vote for release](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9363668\/trump-tax-returns-release-us\/ \"Trump tax return details to be made public after U.S. lawmakers vote for release\")\n\nTheir release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nTrump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.\n\n“The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\n\n![Click to play video: 'Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme']()\n\n0:44\n\nTrump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme\n\nHe said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.”\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability.\n\nA report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid \\$641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay \\$750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly \\$1 million in 2018, \\$133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020.\n\nRead more:   [Trump tax fraud trial: Here’s what’s at stake as jury deliberations continue](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9327729\/trump-tax-fraud-trial\/ \"Trump tax fraud trial: Here’s what’s at stake as jury deliberations continue\")\n\nFor 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly \\$9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than \\$58 million for the final year of his term in office.\n\n![Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.]()\n\n## Get daily National news\nGet daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\n\nBy providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' [Terms and Conditions](https:\/\/www.corusent.com\/terms-of-use\/) and [Privacy Policy](https:\/\/www.corusent.com\/privacy-policy\/).\n\nThe release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s.\n\nThe disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland.\n\nTrump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires.\n\nTrump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.\n\nIn October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least \\$413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s.\n\nA second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just \\$750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.\n\nIn its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 \\_ more than two years into his presidency \\_ when the committee chairman, Rep. 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A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts.\n\nThe House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain.\n\n![Click to play video: 'What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?']()\n\n1:47\n\nWhat comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?\n\nThe measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nRepublicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people.\n\nRep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week.\n\n“We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t \\`weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said.\n\nEvery president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released.\n\nTrump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access.\n\nTrump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nTrump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly \\$700 million in 2009 and \\$200 million in 2010.\n\nBender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through the Trump Organization.\n\nThe Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on 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They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities.\n\nTheir release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nTrump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.\n\n“The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\n\n![Click to play video: 'Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme']() 0:44 Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme\n\nHe said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.”\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability.\n\nA report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid \\$641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay \\$750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly \\$1 million in 2018, \\$133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020.\n\nFor 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly \\$9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than \\$58 million for the final year of his term in office.\n\n![Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.](https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg)\n\n## Get daily National news\nGet daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\n\nThe release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s.\n\nThe disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland.\n\nTrump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires.\n\nTrump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.\n\nIn October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least \\$413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s.\n\nA second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just \\$750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.\n\nIn its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nThe IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 \\_ more than two years into his presidency \\_ when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns.\n\nBy comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts.\n\nThe House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain.\n\n![Click to play video: 'What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?']() 1:47 What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?\n\nThe measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nRepublicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people.\n\nRep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week.\n\n“We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t \\`weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said.\n\nEvery president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released.\n\nTrump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. 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Boilerpipe Text	Democrats in Congress released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House. The returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020. They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities. Their release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections. Story continues below advertisement Trump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” 0:44 Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme He said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.” Story continues below advertisement The returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability. A report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay $750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly $1 million in 2018, $133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020. For 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly $9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than $58 million for the final year of his term in office. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories. The release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s. The disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024. Story continues below advertisement The tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. Trump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires. Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing. In October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s. A second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made. In its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings. Story continues below advertisement The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 _ more than two years into his presidency _ when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns. By comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office. The Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts. The House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain. 1:47 What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud? The measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency. Story continues below advertisement Republicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people. Rep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week. “We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t `weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said. Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released. Trump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access. Trump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court. Story continues below advertisement Trump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010. Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.
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WATCH: What comes next for Donald Trump's tax returns? – Dec 21, 2022 Leave a comment [Share this item on Facebook](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item via WhatsApp](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item on X](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Send this page to someone via email](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) See more sharing options ## Share Close [Share this item on Facebook facebook](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item on X x](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Send this page to someone via email email](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item via WhatsApp whatsapp](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item via Telegram telegram](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item on Reddit reddit](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) [Share this item on BlueSky bluesky](https://globalnews.ca/news/9378876/donald-trump-taxes-tax-returns-release/) Copy article link Copy link Descrease article font size Increase article font size Democrats in Congress released six years of former President [Donald Trump’s](https://globalnews.ca/tag/donald-trump) tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House. ![](https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80) The returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020. They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities. Read more: [Trump tax return details to be made public after U.S. lawmakers vote for release](https://globalnews.ca/news/9363668/trump-tax-returns-release-us/ "Trump tax return details to be made public after U.S. lawmakers vote for release") Their release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections. Story continues below advertisement Trump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” ![Click to play video: 'Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme']() 0:44 Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme He said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.” Story continues below advertisement The returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability. A report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid \$641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay \$750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly \$1 million in 2018, \$133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020. Read more: [Trump tax fraud trial: Here’s what’s at stake as jury deliberations continue](https://globalnews.ca/news/9327729/trump-tax-fraud-trial/ "Trump tax fraud trial: Here’s what’s at stake as jury deliberations continue") For 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly \$9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than \$58 million for the final year of his term in office. ![Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.]() ## Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories. By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' [Terms and Conditions](https://www.corusent.com/terms-of-use/) and [Privacy Policy](https://www.corusent.com/privacy-policy/). The release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s. The disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024. Story continues below advertisement The tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. Trump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires. Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing. In October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least \$413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s. A second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just \$750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made. In its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings. Story continues below advertisement The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 \_ more than two years into his presidency \_ when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns. 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Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency. Story continues below advertisement Republicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people. Rep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week. “We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t \`weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said. Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released. Trump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access. Trump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court. 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Readable Markdown	Democrats in Congress released six years of former President [Donald Trump’s](https://globalnews.ca/tag/donald-trump) tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House. ![](https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80) The returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020. They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities. Their release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections. Story continues below advertisement Trump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” ![Click to play video: 'Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme']() 0:44 Trump Organization found guilty on 17 counts of years-long tax fraud scheme He said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.” Story continues below advertisement The returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability. A report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid \$641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay \$750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly \$1 million in 2018, \$133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020. For 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly \$9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than \$58 million for the final year of his term in office. ![Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.](https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/images/skyline/national.jpg) ## Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories. The release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s. The disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024. Story continues below advertisement The tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. Trump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires. Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing. In October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least \$413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s. A second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just \$750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made. In its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings. Story continues below advertisement The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 \_ more than two years into his presidency \_ when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns. By comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office. The Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts. The House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain. ![Click to play video: 'What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud?']() 1:47 What comes next after Trump organization found guilty of tax fraud? The measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency. Story continues below advertisement Republicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people. Rep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week. “We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t \`weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said. Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released. Trump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access. Trump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court. Story continues below advertisement Trump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly \$700 million in 2009 and \$200 million in 2010. Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.
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