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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump scored a big tax break for conserving a golf range
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/special-report-how-trump-scored-big-tax-break-conserving-golf-range-2021-04-30/When Donald Trump bought his seaside golf course in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb in 2002, he vowed to surround it with some of the most beautiful houses in California. But the 261-acre property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula had a problem.
Geologists working for the city would not clear part of it for home-building because of unstable soil underlying the course, built on a landslide-prone bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
The denials infuriated Trump, who lobbied and litigated for eight years in a failed effort to reverse the geologists findings and secure development approvals, according to interviews with planners and geologists and a Reuters review of public records and court filings.
Trump eventually abandoned a plan to build 16 homes and turned instead to the tax code to offset the lost profits - securing a $25 million tax deduction in exchange for a promise not to develop the land. The agreement with a nonprofit conservancy allowed him to continue using the land as a driving range for the Trump National Golf Course.
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Note: trump previously won fight to reduce property taxes on this land tract based on a $1.1m assessment value to a $900k value! And then he took a $25 million charitable break on it.
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How Trump scored a big tax break for conserving a golf range (Original Post)
Laura PourMeADrink
May 2021
OP
Ha. "I know more than the epidemiologists, generals, and geologists" nt
Laura PourMeADrink
May 2021
#2
PJMcK
(21,995 posts)1. Typical Trump
Trump denied the science just as he would years later in relation to the coronavirus. How could the geologists possibly know what they were talking about?!
What an idiot.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)2. Ha. "I know more than the epidemiologists, generals, and geologists" nt
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)3. Kicking because this may be his achilles heal ???