Mr Trump refused to release his taxes

I don't think he's hiding anything.  I don't think any candidate should have to release their tax returns.  As long as they file a tax return annually that's all I care about.

He's lying about his net worth and the billions he "has" ?

almost all candidates decline to release them

Really, I don't care about their tax issues one wit. Let the IRS do their job and leave me out of it.


Trump and shame in the same sentence? Have you gone mad? 

I thought I heard him recently say that he was bein audited and that when that is done that he would release them. Is the audit done and he's refused to follow through with that statement?

I found it interesting that he also said that he gets audited every single year. I'm no fan of the man but that has to suck big time.

I don't care about seeing tax returns myself, in general ... but it IS customary for candidates to release them. Trump isn't refusing on grounds of privacy, he's claiming it's due to audits. But when this first came up, the IRS released a statement that they had no problem with his returns being released to the public. So that's just typical Trump BS.

I guess it's some combination of he doesn't have as much money as he claims, he hasn't paid anything much in taxes and/or his charitable contributions are an embarrassment.

I've already heard that most of his charitable contributions are "in kind," such as donating a golf resort weekend to a silent auction. Not much in the way of cash gifts.

I was thinking about his charitable contributions today when this tax subject came up. FTR, I don't care about any candidate's taxes. When Trump was doing The Celebrity Apprentice, he would always match the funds given by whatever company was hosting that week. I don't know what account those donations came from, but unless they weren't really donated and just big talk for the show, it would be charitable. But I have no idea how his finances work, so I'm just kind of thinking out loud.

I think he should release them. What I heard is that he doesn't want it really known how little he actually gives to charity,. He claims he is so generous, but most of it is not in cash or anywhere as much as he boasts.

HA HA HA! 

The fact is that Trump has demanded all sorts of insane things from prior candidates, but when it comes to something that everyone releases, he is not sharing. To me, that means he is hiding something.

The fact that he is being audited doesn't bother me at all. I imagine he, like others of great wealth get audited way disproportionately to us regular people. But you can't ask/demand/insist that others be forthcoming and not yourself. Well, I guess you can, but you should be called on it!

Irony, thy name is Donald Trump.

Remember when he offered to donate $5 million to charity if President Obama released his college transcripts, even though no president ever had before? I remember the transcript thing getting support here.

(If that gambit had worked, we wouldn't be questioning whether he makes charitable contributions, right?)

Knowing what everyone in your company makes must make salary negotiation interesting. 

One has nothing to do with the other.  In my opinion, it makes him look worse.

Interesting, the Washington Post had an article on this, this morning. For those of you who don't like the Post, this is the Pinocchio section and it's equally attacking to both sides. It gives a lot of interesting facts about releasing your taxes and fact checks statements Trump has made, like the times he has said he'd release them if Obama showed his birth certificate.

Here's the article.WaPo Fact Check article on releasing tax returns