Trump's Scottish golf resorts to get over $1M in tax relief
Source: NBC News
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Trump's Scottish golf resorts to get over $1M in tax relief
The financial relief is aimed at helping the country's tourism and leisure industries hurt by the economic downturn from the pandemic.
June 11, 2020, 11:37 AM EDT
By Willem Marx and Adela Suliman
AYR, Scotland -- Scottish golf courses owned by President Donald Trump's businesses stand to benefit from more than a million dollars of taxpayer money, as part of a coronavirus relief program run by the Scottish government, according to government officials and an executive at one of Trump's companies.
The financial relief is aimed at helping the country's tourism and leisure industries hurt by the economic downturn from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump Organization owns a 45-hole golf resort in Turnberry, a famed course on Scotland's windy west coast, and a smaller course and hotel north of Aberdeenshire, called Trump International Scotland.
Restrictions prompted by the coronavirus have forced stores and sports facilities to close across Scotland and the rest of Britain. The Scottish government has offered financial aid to affected businesses in the form of tax relief aimed at boosting the tourism and the hospitality sectors.
Kenny Ross, a spokesperson for the South Ayrshire Council, one of the two local authorities responsible for administering that tax relief in the area, confirmed to NBC News that the council was currently undertaking an exercise "to award this relief to all eligible businesses, which will include Trump Turnberry."
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/president-trump-s-scottish-golf-resorts-set-get-over-1-n1229746
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2020/06/scotland-trump-resort-to-get-million-dollar-bailout-as-he-boasts-about-not-asking-for-us-bailout-money/
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Earlier today:
Product placement on your dime
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213578473
Will that be cash or charge?
...And the Trump family didn’t ask the Federal government for money to carry this and many other very expensive to carry properties!
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Here's a link to my piece today in the New York Review of Books about Trump's dangerous war on the safeguards against executive branch corruption.
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