TRUMP TAX DOCUMENTS SHOW PROBLEMS

Trump tax documents show problems. Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump's businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender--and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings property tax. For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy figure as a sign of what they call "leasing momentum". Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013. Trump tax documents show problems.

A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the documents. The discrepancies are "versions of fraud" said Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. "This kind of stuff is not ok." New York CIty's property tax forms state that the person signing them "affirms the truth of the statements made" and that "false filings are subject to all applicable civil and criminal penalties". The punishments for lying to tax officials, or to lenders, can be significant, ranging from fines to criminal fraud charges. Two former Trump Associates, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, are serving prison time for offenses that include falsifying IRS and New York tax and bank records, some of them related to real estate. Trump Tax Documents show problems.

Certainly, if I were sitting in a prosecutor's office, I would want to ask a lot more questions," said Anne Milgram, a former attorney general for New Jersey who is now a professor at New York University School of Law.

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