Trump Keeps Immunity From I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.
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Public interest in Mr. Trump’s tax situation was enormous at the time, as initial reporting showed that he had claimed vast business losses that could have helped him avoid paying any federal income taxes. In 2017, a man named Charles Littlejohn applied for a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. His intention was to work as a contractor for the I.R.S. and leak Mr. Trump’s tax returns, according to testimony he later gave in a deposition.
Mr. Littlejohn succeeded, providing years of Mr. Trump’s tax returns to The Times in 2019, as well as the returns of thousands of other wealthy Americans to ProPublica in 2020.
The resulting series of articles in The Times in 2020 revealed that Mr. Trump had paid little or no federal income taxes for years. The reporting showed Mr. Trump trying to reduce his taxable income in large and small ways, including by treating his daughter Ivanka as a consultant and then deducting the fee as a cost of doing business.