The five counties with the highest audit rates in the United States, according to Tax Notes, are all predominately African-American counties in the South. Meanwhile, zillionaires claim enormous tax deductions for donating expensive art to their own private “museums” located on their own property. Trump is still holding on to the almost $73 million that he appears to have bilked out of the I.R.S. For wealthy people like Trump, taxes become something like a long negotiation. An undocumented immigrant housekeeper who had worked for the Trump Organization posted tax statements on Twitter showing that she had paid more federal income taxes than Trump himself had in many years.

Source: New York Times October 10, 2020 18:22 UTC