Speaking to Salon’s Jon Skolnik, Jay Soled, director of Rutgers masters in taxation program, cast doubt on the idea that Trump would use his ex-wife’s burial for such self-serving means, calling the idea “a bit overkill.” On the other hand, it sounds…exactly like something Trump would do! As Skolnik notes, in 2019, HuffPost reported that Trump was able to save nearly $90,000 a year on taxes by adding goats to the Bedminster golf club, which allowed him to classify the property as a farm. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated.” She noted that, according to state rules, there is “No stipulation regarding a minimum # of human remains necessary for the tax breaks to kick in-looks like one corpse will suffice to make at least 3 forms of tax vanish.”
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“So I checked the NJ tax code & folks…it’s a trifecta of tax avoidance. “As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks.” Dartmouth sociology professor Brooke Harrington, who wrote a book about how the 1 percent avoids paying taxes, tweeted on Saturday.
But according to one tax expert, the 45th president, who has a long history of getting creative with his taxes, may have found a way. While ProPublica previously reported that Trump Family Trust tax documents show the family worked to establish a nonprofit cemetery company in Hackettstown, New Jersey-which, under the state’s tax code, would exempt the site from taxes, rates, and assessments, and the company from real estate taxes, rates, and assessments-that’s roughly 20 miles away from where Ivana was laid to rest. Insider reports that “the location of Ivana Trump’s grave-near the first hole of the golf course at Trump National Golf Club-may have tax implications for the business owned by the former president.” And by “tax implications,” the outlet obviously means burying his first wife on the property of his golf club may help minimize Trump’s tax bill. Is the pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Does Donald Trump strike you as the kind of guy who’d bury his ex-wife on his golf course in order to score a tax break? If you’re a person currently employed by the ex-president or for some reason in thrall of him, your answer to that last question is probably “Of course not! How dare you! Donald Trump is a saint and would never dream of such a thing!” If you’re at all in touch with reality, the answer is a resounding “Hell yes” and maybe a “I literally can’t think of a person more likely to do this” for good measure.
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