Taxes

Private Jet Costs, Sketchy Deductions Among Red Flags in Trump Taxes

  • Non-partisan accountants say business expenses warrant audit
  • Trump unlikely to face blowback from financial disclosure
Donald Trump speaks in Vandalia, Ohio, on Nov. 7.Photographer: Joshua A. Bickel/Bloomberg
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Dozens of audit triggers litter Donald Trump’s tax returns, according to Congress’s top non-partisan tax lawyers: questionable private jet expenses, large unsubstantiated charitable deductions and dubious payments to the former president’s children, among others.

Yet none of them have been seriously audited, according to a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation that reveals information Trump has fought to keep secret for years.