During the 2016 presidential debates, Donald Trump dubbed his aggressive tax-reducing moves as "smart." Now, veteran tax analysts have a different label: criminal. Daniel Shaviro, a tax law prof at NYU, feels that "several different types of fraud may have been involved,"
Ivanka Trump, adds former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman, had no "legitimate reason" to collect consulting fees for the Trump hotel projects "since she was being paid already as a Trump employee." Donald and Ivanka Trump, says Akerman, should with "no question" be facing "at least five years in prison for tax evasion."
Plutocrats don't play by the same rules as pizza parlors, and that won't change so long as Donald Trump remains in the White House. But these new revelations may make that a harder sell.
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