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JDPriestly

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25. If so, it isn't going to work.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 24, 2012, 04:41 PM

Aug 2012

Because -- if he was born and raised here, why doesn't he recognize his income and pay his taxes on it here?

The records of some of the companies he owns or invests a lot of his money in suggest that he is taking his income in the Caymans, and then letting it sit there until he can list it on his American tax forms as capital gains which are taxed at a very low rate if at all.

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