Campbell
Gold Member
- Aug 20, 2015
- 3,866
- 651
- 255
- Thread starter
- #41
Buffets a hypocrite and he's in the tank for a ******* piece of shit progressives… LOLAs usual, you Trumpettes are fucked up liars. Buffet has made his tax returns available.I'll believe Warren Buffet when he coughs up the tax returns. He's long been in the tank for Democrats, it's served him well.And Trump is an absolute liar!buffet is an absolute hypocriteProbably More Than Donald Trump Has Paid In The Last 15 Years!
That Makes Him Smart.......NOT!!!
2
Buffett Nails Trump Tax Lie
How Warren Buffett’s Released Tax Returns Prove Trump Wrong
Trump, on the other hand, has claimed that his income in 2015 exceeded $557 million--though my Fortune colleague Shawn Tully has pointed out that the presidential candidate appears to be confusing revenues with net income, and probably made closer to $177 million last year, before taxes. The 1995 loss could have allowed him to deduct $50 million from his income through 2013 using an IRS provision called a “carryforward,” allowing him to potentially skip paying taxes that whole time. Last year, however, Tully estimates that Trump paid a tax rate of 15%, or about $27 million.
Buffett, meanwhile, says he has paid federal income taxes every year since 1944, when he was 13, and has never used a carryforward from a loss on any of those 72 tax returns. That’s not to be confused with carried interest, another provision that Trump brought up in Sunday’s debate that allows certain wealthy investors to collect a tax benefit on some investments. But Buffett has previously told Fortune that he does not have any investments that would allow him to take advantage of that provision.
In mentioning Buffett’s supposedly “massive deduction,” Trump may have been referring to the Oracle of Omaha’s charitable donations, which are indeed massive. Last year, Buffett gave nearly $2.86 billion to charity--nearly our estimate of what Trump is worth in total--much of which was in the form of Berkshire Hathaway stock--making him one of the top philanthropic donors in the world. But Buffett could only deduct a relatively small portion of that--less than $3.5 million, or 0.12% of his total donations--on his tax returns because U.S. tax law caps the charitable amount that people can deduct.
On the flip side, Trump hasn’t even come close to approaching the limit on charitable contributions: The last donation he made to his own philanthropy, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was in 2008 for only $30,000, according to Inside Philanthropy.
Really?
Warren Buffett gives $2.9 billion to charity