Now Is a Good Time to Cheat on Your Taxes
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🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Budget cuts have crippled the IRS allowing tax cheats to run rampant. ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger says the agency's ability to pursue criminal cases is in collapse because of budget cuts and the fact that the agency still has the same number of auditors it had in 1953. So who benefits from this? And why does it matter?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Mary. Nice to see you. Thanks for coming in. |
| 0:04.2 | Sure. Thanks for having me. What are we talking about? |
| 0:08.3 | What is this show? Who are you? |
| 0:11.1 | This is Jesse Isinger. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm an editor and senior reporter at ProPublica. |
| 0:15.6 | He's covered financial crime for about a decade. |
| 0:18.5 | You know, I used to be a Wall Street reporter, and then it turns out that if you're a Wall |
| 0:23.5 | Street reporter, you really are a crime reporter. |
| 0:27.0 | And so I've sort of morphed. |
| 0:29.4 | And I wanted to talk to Jesse, because I knew that when the New York Times began publishing |
| 0:33.4 | stories about the Trump family's tax fraud, Jesse was reading the same papers you and I were, |
| 0:39.3 | but he was seeing something totally different. |
| 0:42.3 | The New York Times having access to a trove of previously secret documents. The Times alleging |
| 0:49.5 | here that the president received up to $413 million in today's money from his father's... |
| 0:56.3 | Quick reminder here. |
| 0:57.3 | The Times reported that while Donald Trump has claimed to be a self-made billionaire, |
| 1:01.5 | he actually benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts from his father. |
| 1:06.3 | And much of that money came from dubious tax schemes. |
| 1:09.3 | Mr. Trump has always claimed to be a self-made billionaire. |
| 1:13.1 | It was a central theme of his 2016 campaign. I got a very, very small loan from my father many years ago. |
| 1:21.6 | I built that into a massive empire, and I paid my father back that loan. |
| 1:26.1 | And then a few days ago, the Times published another report, this time about Jared Kushner. |
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