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Trump signed off $50M Trump Soho investment-turned-loan: report; need income tax report
Topic Started: Feb 16 2017, 02:40 AM (310 Views)
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UPDATED, 10:20 a.m., May 27: In the latest controversy surrounding the Trump Soho and developer Bayrock Group – as well as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee himself – a British newspaper investigation claims Bayrock and Trump signed off on a $50 million investment from an Icelandic company that was later reclassified as a loan in order to dodge taxes.


Trump himself signed documents approving the deal in 2007, which would see Icelandic investor FL Group pour $50 million into four development partnerships led by Bayrock, including the Trump Soho and two other projects bearing the Trump name, according to the Daily Telegraph.

But that equity investment was later relabeled as a loan – meaning that Bayrock and its partners would escape some $20 million in taxes by disguising the sale of the partnership stake to FL Group, as well as an estimated $80 million in taxes on future profits from the properties.

Trump had a 15 percent stake in Trump Soho at the time. His attorney, Alan Garten, told the Telegraph that Trump “had nothing to do with the transaction,” with his signature merely a formality and Trump only a “limited partner” in the property.


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