Lion Heart 15,041 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 By CHARLES V. BAGLISEPT. 17, 2016 The way Donald J. Trump tells it, his first solo project as a real estate developer, the conversion of a faded railroad hotel on 42nd Street into the sleek, 30-story Grand Hyatt, was a triumph from the very beginning. The hotel, Mr. Trump bragged in “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 best seller, “was a hit from the first day. Gross operating profits now exceed $30 million a year.” But that book, and numerous interviews over the years, make little mention of a crucial factor in getting the hotel built: an extraordinary 40-year tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes, with four years still to run, on a property that cost only $120 million to build in 1980. The project set the pattern for Mr. Trump’s New York career: He used his father’s, and, later, his own, extensive political connections, and relied on a huge amount of assistance from the government and taxpayers in the form of tax breaks, grants and incentives to benefit the 15 buildings at the core of his Manhattan real estate empire. Since then, Mr. Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York, according to city tax, housing and finance records. The subsidies helped him lower his own costs and sell apartments at higher prices because of their reduced taxes. Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has made clear over the course of his campaign how proud he is that “as a businessman I want to pay as little tax as possible.” While it is impossible to assess how much Mr. Trump pays in personal or corporate income taxes, because he has refused to release his tax returns, an examination of his record as a New York developer shows how aggressively he has fought to lower the taxes on his projects. Mr. Trump successfully sued the administration of Mayor Edward I. Koch after being denied a tax break for Trump Tower, his signature building on Fifth Avenue. Two decades later, in a lawsuit that spanned the administrations of Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg, he won a similar tax break for Trump World Tower, a building on First Avenue with some of the city’s highest-priced condominiums in 2001. The tax breaks for those two projects alone totaled $157 million. The tax break at the 44-story Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle came to $15.9 million. No possible subsidy was left untapped. After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mr. Trump lined up a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near ground zero, taking advantage of a program to help small businesses in the area recover, even though he had acknowledged on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged. FULL STORY: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/donald-trump-tax-breaks-real-estate.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0 ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,649 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 They should've released this information next Sunday, a day before the debates to do more damage tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 Trump goes on a (predictable) Meltdown after the exposure: ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Surrealist 27,470 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 I'm so over this election and Trump's obvious fake, racists and brainwashing statements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
malazam 15,710 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Can somebody explain this to me? What does this mean? another shot before we kiss the other side Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petie Estie 5,704 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 nothing like this will hurt him. his base will probably like this news. it just means he used the corrupt system to benefit him and they think he'll use the same greedy tactics to help them now but it won't happen -.- Call your therapist...it's Petie Estie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan 20,827 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 This really does nothing. All of this information just bounces off of the minds of Trump fans. All they can do to counter is call Hillary corrupt, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopBitch 1,218 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 52 minutes ago, SEANGT said: nothing like this will hurt him. his base will probably like this news. it just means he used the corrupt system to benefit him and they think he'll use the same greedy tactics to help them now but it won't happen -.- The deplorables are applauding him even more right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopBitch 1,218 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 56 minutes ago, Lion Heart said: Trump goes on a (predictable) Meltdown after the exposure: His tweets are so presidential. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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