<u+201c>as a businessman and real estate developer, i have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees,<u+201d> donald trump says.  | getty by nolan d. mccaskill 10/04/16 04:41 pm edt donald trump<u+2019>s former accountant challenged the republican presidential nominee<u+2019>s assertion that he <u+201c>brilliantly<u+201d> used tax laws to avoid paying federal taxes. <u+201c>i did all the tax preparation. he never saw the product until it was presented to him for signature,<u+201d> jack mitnick, a former trump family accountant, told inside edition<u+2019>s steven fabian in an interview broadcast tuesday. story continued below at a rally in pueblo, colorado, on monday, the real estate mogul responded to the bombshell new york times report published saturday evening that disclosed a nearly $1 billion loss in 1995 that could have allowed trump to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. <u+201c>as a businessman and real estate developer, i have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>i mean, honestly, i have brilliantly <u+2014> i have brilliantly used those laws. i have often said on the campaign trail that i have a fiduciary responsibility to pay no more tax than is legally required, like anybody else, or put another way: to pay as little tax as legally possible.<u+201d> but mitnick claimed it was he who used the tax code in trump<u+2019>s favor. <u+201c>right. i<u+2019>m the one who did all the work,<u+201d> he said. mitnick confirmed the veracity of the three documents published by the new york times. he said the software he used at the time couldn<u+2019>t print enough digits to show the nine-figure loss so he used a typewriter. <u+201c>all the copies were delivered to mr. trump,<u+201d> he added. <u+201c>who got them after that, i can<u+2019>t tell you.<u+201d> by michael grunwald by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz
former accountant refutes trump<u+2019>s tax brilliance: i did all the work - politico
nolan d. mccaskill michael grunwald