TRUMP'S 1995 TAX DOCUMENTS REVEALED

According to Ibtimes.com, Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump lost millions of dollars in 1995 and that huge loss may have let him off the hook from paying federal income taxes for nearly 18 years, the New York Times reported late
Saturday.

The real estate mogul, due to a series of bad
business decisions, lost huge sums of money
in the mid-1990s. The documents leaked to the Times aren’t complete tax returns but the first pages of Trump’s New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut state tax returns from 1995.
The documents revealed that Trump reported a net loss of $915,729,293. According to the report, “a $916 million loss in 1995 would have been large enough to wipe out more than $50 million a year in taxable income over 18
years.”
 This kind of loss would have eliminated the
federal income taxes Trump would have had to pay for his appearances on "The Apprentice" for which he was paid $50,000 to $100,000 per episode. The report however does not indicate that Trump did anything illegal.
Tax attorney Steven Goldburd explained to the Washington Post, “Let’s say anybody, John Smith, had a business that went bad. If you have a net operating loss, you can roll it over, year-to-year, and it could technically wipe out your taxes this year. If you made an investment last year and you lost a million dollars on that business investment, and this year you only made $500,000 [in income], by rolling over last year's net operating loss, you just wiped out your $500,000 for this year. But not only that, you still have $500,000 to wipe out for next year.”
There is no law saying presidential candidates must release their tax returns but since 1976, every major party presidential nominee has made their tax returns public. Trump’s rival former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
released almost 40 years’ worth of tax returns. Even Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence released 10 years’ worth of tax returns.