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IRS: Criminal Intent. IRS: Law & OrderI think you have a couple of winners there. Just FYI, I quit CSI after the original cast left, never watched any of the variations.

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Hi TR, how are you? Are you doing anything special for your holiday? I hope you had a great Christmas.

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Hi, how did you european trip go?For christmas I visited family and for newyears I will be staying home with my cat to watch the fireworks (he likes to loo at the lights through the window, but growls if it is too loud)

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We didn't make it to Europe, the military planes either didn't take passengers, took only a few, or were broken.We probably could have made England, but I was there just a month before, and wasn't confident we'd find lodging/transportation to/from London, or be able to get back to US.I may try military flight to Europe in March, if my wife doesn't make other plan for me, and maybe fly commercial to UK in May.

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I had my own business for 18 years and always did my own taxes. There is no way in hell you can figure out what is what without his accounting books to go along with it. Otherwise it's just numbers in boxes and the IRS really has no idea whether the expenses are legit or not.

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tRump cheating scoreboard:

1. Cheats at golf, confirmed.2. Cheated on all three of his wives, confirmed3. Cheats on his taxes, not confirmed yet.

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The losses are contrived.

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Wealth. Borrowed or real. It let's you move your income around in time so as to be less taxed.

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"In 2016, for example, the filing for DT Endeavor I LLC (aviation) reported gross income of $680,886 and expenses that also totaled $680,886. A filing for Melania Trump (modeling) said it took in $3,848 and reported the same amount of expenses. A filing for Donald J. Trump (speaking) reported $50,000 in gross income and $46,162 in travel expenses."

This is almost certain to be bogus. But not only that, it's extremely sloppy of the accountants preparing the taxes. If you're going to cheat, you need to at least make it look convincing. Spread the losses around.

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Has comb-over, wears spray tan.

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One thing that bothers me here (among other things) is that businesses get to use income averaging to roll over significant gains or losses into the next tax year, but individuals do not. Individuals USED to be able to use income averaging, but the 1986 Tax Reform Act eliminated income averaging for everyone except fishermen and farmers.

That means that when I lost $160,000 in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina destroying my house and all my possessions and leaving me unemployed for 3 months, which amount was more than 3X what I earned in 2005, I was not able to roll that loss over into subsequent years. It was gone forever.

Thanks, Reagan.

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Total phony.

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I will when I remember, at least. In this case, I wanted to go with the pretense that I had typed "Donald Trump's taxis" while intending taxes. Actual prompt was something like Donald Trump stands surrounded by a group of taxis" I was pleasantly surprised to get a view from the back instead of a weirdly distorted Trumpface

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it's a multiyear appointment. Rettig left earlier this year

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Stole images used to photoshop his head onto for NFTs.

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Not guilty by reasons of whiteness, wealth, celebrity, and fascism.

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