After years of legal skirmishes, court battles and the rest, the House Ways and Means Committee finally released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns last week. It didn’t make front-page news because they had already been leaked. Even so, we should be mad as hell.
Unlike every president and presidential candidate, Trump refused to disclose his tax returns. With reason. He didn’t pay his fair share. He didn’t donate his fair share. He got away with murder. But we knew that.
In 2017, the first year of his presidency, he paid more in foreign taxes than in U.S. taxes — $750 in U.S. taxes compared to nearly a million in taxes for business income or activities all over the world. In 2020, he paid nothing at all. Zero dollars. How about that? No wonder he fought so hard to hide.
This is where Trump has been doing business: in Azerbaijan, Panama, Canada, India, Qatar, South Korea, the United Kingdom, China, the Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Grenada, U.S. territory Puerto Rico, Georgia, Israel, Brazil, St. Maarten, Mexico, Indonesia, Ireland, Turkey and St. Vincent.