Trump's $21 Million Tax Break for Preserving Forest at His Mansion Under Investigation

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar21-million-tax-break-for-preserving-forest-at-his-mansion-under-investigation?ref=home

Trump’s $21 Million Tax Break for Preserving Forest at His Mansion Under Investigation

INTO THE WOODS
Jamie Ross, Reporter
Published Oct. 09, 2020 9:44AM ET

Surely Donald Trump didn’t have a hidden motive when he benevolently promised to preserve the beautiful woodland around his luxurious Westchester County mansion? The Washington Post has reported that the deal—which saw the future president handed a $21 million tax break in 2016—is now under investigation to determine whether the Trump Organization improperly inflated the value of the land. New York Attorney General Letitia James has launched the probe. The Post got hold of an appraisal which apparently showed the value was based on assertions and misleading conclusions—which, in turn, boosted the value of his tax break. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, Alan Garten, said “the allegations are categorically untrue.” Eric Trump, who now helps run the Trump Organization, sat for a deposition in the case Monday.

[pwb]

1. You could rake a lot of forest for that money.

We could have raked all of California?

[Deb]

2. Does he manage it by sweeping?

That would make it enormously valued improved property.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

3. If it could be crooked

and Donnie did it, it is crooked.

[underpants]

4. Read this this morning. That is a sweet looking mansion

That looks a lot more Mr. Bigshot to me than his tacky apartment. I know, he wanted to be the man about town. Funny just like the TV city project it got stopped by the locals. With TV city all Trump had to do was go to local meetings, nod, smile and he’d have had a dominant mark on the NYC skyline. Nope couldn’t do it.

With this property I think he was butting heads with oooold money on their turf.

[Celerity]

5. ...

[underpants]

6. Oh yeah.

That screams WEALTH. Reminds me of something the Roy’s would have on “Succession”.

[Celerity]

7. I would live in it, lol. It is one of the very rare Trumpian things that do not look like tacky shit