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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 09:54 PM Apr 2017

Tries to lower his property taxes in Florida

Andy Reid
Sun Sentinel

... Trump and his companies paid about $2.9 million in 2016 taxes — far less than the $3.7 million local law enforcement has spent to protect him during seven visits to Palm Beach since January ...

Trump was among about 5,100 Palm Beach County property owners who filed challenges to their property assessments last year in an attempt to reduce their tax bills. Only 6 percent of those won their appeals ...

The challenges haven’t worked for four years in a row for Trump’s Jupiter golf course, and the fact that he’s now the president doesn’t change anything, said Vince McLaren, who did the appraisal for the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office ...


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-pn-trump-south-florida-property-taxes-20170425-story.html

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Tries to lower his property taxes in Florida (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2017 OP
Trump is such a shyster. blue neen Apr 2017 #1
Palm Beach County should turn the tables on Trump avebury Apr 2017 #2
Hasn't America been good enough to Trump in his 70 years? gratuitous Apr 2017 #3

avebury

(10,952 posts)
2. Palm Beach County should turn the tables on Trump
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 10:05 PM
Apr 2017

and raise the proerty taxes based upon the concept that his Presidency has enhanced the property. The money that the Secret Service would have had to pour into the place would add value. If I remember correctly, didn't they raise the membership rates quite a bit? If true, that would also infer the the value of the property has gone up.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Hasn't America been good enough to Trump in his 70 years?
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 10:09 PM
Apr 2017

Why does he continue to try to chisel our beloved country?

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