Every so often, Brunson and Herzig carve out a day to swap long-winded emails, then those emails are published on the Internet.

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I am sure you have seen by now the NY Times story about Donald Trump’s purported tax positions from the 1990.  The NY Times has been following up on a story they originally published about a month ago reporting that Mr. Trump reportedly had a $990 million net operating loss (“NOL”).  After the story, there was rampant speculation about the loss.

If Mr. Trump used exclusively all of his money to buy properties or casinos or whatever and those assets were used in a trade or business and those assets went down in value, Mr. Trump would suffer a real economic loss.  This real economic loss would then generate a real tax loss.  At the time, most tax experts thought that Mr. Trump may have used some of his money but all used loans.  I think I was quoted as saying this was likely given his prior statements about being the king of debt. Continue reading “On Trump and Tax Opinions” →