Donald Trump to the public: These are the greatest assets anywhere!
Donald Trump to the government: These old shacks aren’t worth spit.
He talked the tax board in Las Vegas into knocking the appraisal of his Trump Hotel down to $25 million, then the very next week, listed its value at $50 million in his financial statements.
Maybe that’s just Trump in his “smart businessman” role, putting one over on the government. Except Trump’s campaign has been arguing that, even if it’s true that he paid no federal taxes for decades (it’s true), he still pays out gobs of state and local taxes.
Source: Donald Trump cheats on local and state taxes, turning Trump facilities into drains on communities