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Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa197)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.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://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways","crawl_time":1773833329,"first_indexed_time":1672434861,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,theguardian!www,\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways s443","src_root_hash":"4161074618625082499","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump tax returns: key takeaways from the records release | Donald Trump | The Guardian","meta_descriptions":["The former president had a bank account in China, failed to donate in 2020 and claims Democrats ‘weaponized’ his taxes"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"In one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday\nreleased\nsix years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.\nThe thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House.\nHere are some key takeaways from a review of the documents:\nTrump had a bank account in China\nDuring a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier.\n“The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.”\nThe tax returns\ncontradict that account\n. Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017.\nThe returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties.\nThe returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts.\nNo reported charitable giving in 2020\nIn the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about $500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his $400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating $1.1m in 2016 and $1.8m in 2017.\nMoney from the arts world\nTrump collected a $77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a $6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as $14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns.\nTrump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.\nTrump reported paying a little more than $400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving $750,000 in fees for speaking engagements.\nTrump vows payback\nTrump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now\nRepublicans\nwarn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information.\nTrump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public.\n“The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left\nDemocrats\nhave weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\nRepublicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week.\nRepublicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. Biden resumed the longstanding bipartisan tradition of releasing his tax records, disclosing 22 years’ worth of filings during his 2020 campaign.","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways#maincontent)[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways#navigation)\n\nClose dialogue\n\n1\/1\n\nNext image\n\nPrevious image\n\nToggle caption\n\n[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways#navigation)\n\n[Print subscriptions](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/subscribe\/weekly?REFPVID=mmvykdl6utyf9jmmkuk8&INTCMP=undefined&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22PrintSubscriptionsHeaderLink%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22mmvykdl6utyf9jmmkuk8%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2022%2Fdec%2F30%2Ftrump-tax-returns-key-takeaways%22%7D)\n\n[Search jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n\n[Sign in](https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN&ABCMP=ab-sign-in&componentEventParams=componentType%3Didentityauthentication%26componentId%3Dguardian_signin_header)\n\nEur\n\n- [Europe edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/eur)\n- [UK edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/uk)\n- [US edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/us)\n- [Australia edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/au)\n- [International edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/int)\n\n[The Guardian - 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Photograph: Joe Raedle\/Getty Images\n\n[View image in fullscreen](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-key-takeaways#img-1)\n\nIn the final year of his presidency, Donald Trump reported making no charitable donations. Photograph: Joe Raedle\/Getty Images\n\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump)\n\nThis article is more than **3 years old**\n\n[Analysis](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/analysis)\n\n# Trump tax returns: key takeaways from the records release\nThis article is more than 3 years old\n\nAssociated Press in Washington\n\nThe former president had a bank account in China, failed to donate in 2020 and claims Democrats ‘weaponized’ his taxes\n\nFri 30 Dec 2022 21.51 CET\n\nLast modified on Thu 11 Apr 2024 16.10 CEST\n\nShare\n\nIn one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday [released](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee) six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.\n\n[![Donald and Melania Trump arrive for a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/501eef7017e41f4d206a238085ae0af63d548481\/0_335_5318_3193\/master\/5318.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0d93401d9aa3a9a877373ed593dbe39d)Trump tax returns show China bank account as six years of records released Read more](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee)\n\nThe thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House.\n\nHere are some key takeaways from a review of the documents:\n\n## Trump had a bank account in China\nDuring a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier.\n\n“The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.”\n\nThe tax returns [contradict that account](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee). Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017.\n\nThe returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties.\n\nThe returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts.\n\n## No reported charitable giving in 2020\nIn the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about \\$500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his \\$400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating \\$1.1m in 2016 and \\$1.8m in 2017.\n\n## Money from the arts world\nTrump collected a \\$77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a \\$6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as \\$14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns.\n\nTrump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.\n\nTrump reported paying a little more than \\$400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving \\$750,000 in fees for speaking engagements.\n\n## Trump vows payback\nTrump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now [Republicans](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans) warn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information.\n\nTrump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public.\n\n[![Trump with Kayleigh McEnany on Air Force One after a rally in Tucson in October 2020.](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aa01fd7cee9e6939c863b347cac979b5361738b0\/585_55_3899_2339\/master\/3899.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=82f594769111659b508c8f11c8835393)Kayleigh McEnany a ‘liar and opportunist’, says former Trump aide Read more](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/kayleigh-mcenany-liar-opportunist-trump-alyssa-farah-griffin)\n\n“The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left [Democrats](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats) have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\n\nRepublicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week.\n\nRepublicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. 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All rights reserved.\n\n(dcr)","attrs_readable_markdown":"In one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday [released](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee) six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.\n\nThe thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House.\n\nHere are some key takeaways from a review of the documents:\n\n## Trump had a bank account in China\nDuring a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier.\n\n“The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.”\n\nThe tax returns [contradict that account](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/30\/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee). Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017.\n\nThe returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties.\n\nThe returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts.\n\n## No reported charitable giving in 2020\nIn the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about \\$500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his \\$400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating \\$1.1m in 2016 and \\$1.8m in 2017.\n\n## Money from the arts world\nTrump collected a \\$77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a \\$6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as \\$14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns.\n\nTrump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.\n\nTrump reported paying a little more than \\$400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving \\$750,000 in fees for speaking engagements.\n\n## Trump vows payback\nTrump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now [Republicans](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans) warn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information.\n\nTrump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public.\n\n“The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left [Democrats](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats) have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”\n\nRepublicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week.\n\nRepublicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. Biden resumed the longstanding bipartisan tradition of releasing his tax records, disclosing 22 years’ worth of filings during his 2020 campaign.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	In one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday released six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid. The thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House. Here are some key takeaways from a review of the documents: Trump had a bank account in China During a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier. “The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.” The tax returns contradict that account . Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties. The returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts. No reported charitable giving in 2020 In the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about $500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his $400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating $1.1m in 2016 and $1.8m in 2017. Money from the arts world Trump collected a $77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a $6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as $14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns. Trump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump reported paying a little more than $400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving $750,000 in fees for speaking engagements. Trump vows payback Trump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now Republicans warn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information. Trump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public. “The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” Republicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week. Republicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. Biden resumed the longstanding bipartisan tradition of releasing his tax records, disclosing 22 years’ worth of filings during his 2020 campaign.
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Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) This article is more than 3 years old [Analysis](https://www.theguardian.com/tone/analysis) # Trump tax returns: key takeaways from the records release This article is more than 3 years old Associated Press in Washington The former president had a bank account in China, failed to donate in 2020 and claims Democrats ‘weaponized’ his taxes Fri 30 Dec 2022 21.51 CET Last modified on Thu 11 Apr 2024 16.10 CEST Share In one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday [released](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee) six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid. [![Donald and Melania Trump arrive for a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/501eef7017e41f4d206a238085ae0af63d548481/0_335_5318_3193/master/5318.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0d93401d9aa3a9a877373ed593dbe39d)Trump tax returns show China bank account as six years of records released Read more](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee) The thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House. Here are some key takeaways from a review of the documents: ## Trump had a bank account in China During a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier. “The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.” The tax returns [contradict that account](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee). Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties. The returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts. ## No reported charitable giving in 2020 In the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about \$500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his \$400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating \$1.1m in 2016 and \$1.8m in 2017. ## Money from the arts world Trump collected a \$77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a \$6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as \$14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns. Trump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump reported paying a little more than \$400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving \$750,000 in fees for speaking engagements. ## Trump vows payback Trump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) warn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information. Trump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public. [![Trump with Kayleigh McEnany on Air Force One after a rally in Tucson in October 2020.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aa01fd7cee9e6939c863b347cac979b5361738b0/585_55_3899_2339/master/3899.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=82f594769111659b508c8f11c8835393)Kayleigh McEnany a ‘liar and opportunist’, says former Trump aide Read more](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/kayleigh-mcenany-liar-opportunist-trump-alyssa-farah-griffin) “The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left [Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats) have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” Republicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week. Republicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. Biden resumed the longstanding bipartisan tradition of releasing his tax records, disclosing 22 years’ worth of filings during his 2020 campaign. 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Readable Markdown	In one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday [released](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee) six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid. The thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House. Here are some key takeaways from a review of the documents: ## Trump had a bank account in China During a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier. “The bank account was in 2013. It was closed in 2015, I believe,” Trump said. “I was thinking about doing a deal in China. Like millions of other people, I was thinking about it. I decided not to do it.” The tax returns [contradict that account](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/trump-tax-returns-released-us-house-committee). Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The returns show accounts in other foreign countries including the UK, Ireland and St Martin in the Caribbean. By 2018, Trump had apparently closed all his overseas accounts other than the one in the UK, home to one of his flagship golf properties. The returns do not detail the amount of money held in those accounts. ## No reported charitable giving in 2020 In the final year of his presidency, Trump reported making no charitable donations. That was in contrast to the prior two years, when Trump reported about \$500,000 (£414,060) worth of donations. It is unclear if any of the figures include his pledge to donate his \$400,000 presidential salary back to the US government. He reported donating \$1.1m in 2016 and \$1.8m in 2017. ## Money from the arts world Trump collected a \$77,808 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild and a \$6,543 pension in 2017 from another film and TV union, and reported acting residuals as high as \$14,141 in 2015, according to the tax returns. Trump has made cameo appearances in various movies, notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but his biggest on-screen success came with his reality TV shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump reported paying a little more than \$400,000 from 2015 to 2017 in “book writer” fees. In 2015, Trump published the book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, with a ghostwriter. The same year, Trump reporting receiving \$750,000 in fees for speaking engagements. ## Trump vows payback Trump broke political tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate or as president. Now [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) warn that Democrats will pay a political price by releasing what is normally confidential information. Trump underscored that in a statement on Friday morning, after his returns were made public. “The great USA divide will now grow far worse,” he said. “The Radical Left [Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats) have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!” Republicans on the House ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over tax matters and released the Trump documents, warned that in the future the committee could release the returns of labor leaders or supreme court justices. Democrats countered with a proposal to require the release of tax returns by any presidential candidate – legislation that is unlikely to pass, given that Republicans take control of the House next week. Republicans cannot disclose Joe Biden’s tax returns – because they are already public. Biden resumed the longstanding bipartisan tradition of releasing his tax records, disclosing 22 years’ worth of filings during his 2020 campaign.
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