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President Donald Trump did not pay federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a New York Times report.
Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax returns and is the only president in modern times who has not made them public, paid $ 750 in taxes to the federal government in the year he was elected, 2016, and $ 750 again in his first year in office.
The disclosure, which the Times says comes from tax return data it collected over two decades, comes at a crucial time before the first presidential debate on Tuesday and weeks before a divisive election.
A lawyer for the Trump Organization, Alan Garten, told the Times that “most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate.”
Garten said in a statement to the news organization that the president “has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.” – Associated Press
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