Letter: Congress wrote the tax laws that benefit Trump

  • By Wire Service
  • Thursday, October 27, 2016 12:57pm
  • Opinion

The liars in the media have been steadily lying for over a year about Donald Trump. They lied about his immigration policy about Muslins by leaving the last half of his sentence out of their writings. The First Amendment allows the “press” the freedom to rat out liars in the Government, but NOT to lie about someone with whom they disagree. .

The latest lie is that Donald Trump pays no taxes. Get this straight, Mr. Trump does not owe any taxes even though he paid no taxes in recent years. If people could read the IRS tax code they might find the sections that made it possible for Trump’s tax savvy accountants to adjust his tax obligation following a large financial occurrence so he currently pays no taxes.. This is exactly why the tax laws were written by Congressand made into tax law so taxpayers pay only what is due from them.

As a former IRS agent I am aware that every large company has a revenue agent assigned to the company to make sure they follow the tax laws all year long. The revenue agent makes adjustments when he sees them to avoid surprises.

So next time you see/hear/read someone going off about Mr. Trump not paying any taxes you can assume he/she is mistaken, or a Democrat.

Richard Jauch

Camano Island

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