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In reply to the discussion: Trump motorcade blocked by goats on way home from arrest [View all]Tanuki
(16,117 posts)by pretending that his Bedminster estate is a "farm"?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/how-trump-used-goats-to-cut-millions-of-dollars-off-his-local-property-taxes-and-paid-just-700-last-year/amp_articleshow/86370363.cms
"How Trump used goats to cut millions of dollars off his local property taxes, and paid just $700 last year
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The roaming ruminants allow the twice-impeached former president to claim New Jersey's farmland assessment reduction - a tax-shaving strategy that's likely saved the businessman-turned-politician more than $3 million since the club opened in 2004.
That means if the farm were taxed on par with the golf course, he'd be on the hook for approximately $199,000 more per year over the past two decades. That's millions in lost revenue the town of 8,300 people could have put towards improving roads, schools, or the beloved local library.
The farmland tax reduction is just one of the many ways Trump has been known to shave the cost of running his businesses, including in Bedminster where locals would like to forget their most infamous neighbor.
According to The Washington Post, Trump's company secretly hired unauthorized Costa Rican workers to shape his suburban retreat for a fraction of what he would have had to pay unionized locals."... .(more)
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