Trump paid no federal income tax in his last year as president

Former President Donald Trump reported a shocking reversal of fortune throughout the center two years of his presidency that led to a substantial tax invoice, in line with a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation launched Tuesday evening.

The $1.1 million Trump paid in federal taxes in 2018 and 2019 stand in stark distinction to the $750 he paid in 2017 and $0 in 2020.

Trump’s tax invoice grew considerably as his earnings surged in 2018 and 2019, in accordance the report that included particulars on Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020, forward of the deliberate launch of the returns themselves. For instance, Trump reported a $22 million capital acquire in 2018 and a $9 million acquire in 2019 from asset gross sales, sending his earnings into the black following years of monumental losses.

In 2015 and 2016, Trump reported he misplaced greater than $32 million annually. In 2017, Trump stated he misplaced practically $13 million. However he reported taxable earnings of $24 million in 2018 and greater than $4 million in 2019, giving him a sizeable tax invoice.

Trump has leveraged large losses he accrued over time to zero out his tax liabilities, as beforehand proven by a New York Instances investigation. For instance, the JCT famous that Trump carried ahead $105 million in losses on his 2015 return, $73 million in 2016, $45 million in 2017 and $23 million in 2018.

“It’s the two,000-pound gorilla. … He nonetheless makes use of the online working losses” to scale back his tax legal responsibility, stated Steven M. Rosenthal, senior fellow within the City-Brookings Tax Coverage Middle on the City Institute.

And as soon as once more, in 2020, because the pandemic raged on, Trump reported a lack of practically $5 million. He paid $0 in federal earnings taxes that yr.