steve benen: Photo by Hector Vivas/Latin Content/Getty Trump stretched tax loopholes 'beyond any recognition' 11/01/16 11:20 AM By Steve Benen The fact that Donald Trump didn't pay federal income taxes for many years is not in dispute – because the Republican presidential candidate admitted it during a nationally televised debate, according to MSNBC. There is some question, however, about whether or not Trump exploitation of tax loopholes was entirely legal. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen during a press conference at Los Pinos on Aug. 31, 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico. The *New York Times* reported last night that the answer may not cast the GOP nominee in a positive light. Trump avoided reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income by using a tax avoidance maneuver so legally dubious his own lawyers advised him that the Internal Revenue Service would most likely declare it improper if he were audited. N ewly obtained documents show that in the early 1990s, as he scrambled to stave off financial ruin, Mr.
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