Donald Trump spent $ 70,000 in hairdressing fees in 2016
According to the "New York Times", the American president reduced his taxes by making cover some of his expenses by his companies, including his hairdressing costs, estimated at 70,000 dollars per year when he presented the TV show. -reality "The Apprentice".
This is an incongruous detail among the very serious "New York Times" revelations about Donald Trump's tax returns. The American daily, which reveals that the American president paid only $ 750 in income tax in the year of his election, in 2016, claims that many of his expenses were covered by his companies: private plane , residence but also ... hairdressing costs, up to $ 70,000.
According to the "New York Times", the bill of 70,000 dollars (or about 60,000 euros) for his hairstyles on the set of "The Apprentice", the reality TV show that brought him into the household of Americans, has thus been supported by its companies. A much higher amount than the taxes he notably paid in 2016.
Nine of her companies have also paid at least $ 95,464 (around 80,000 euros) in expenses for her daughter Ivanka from her favorite makeup artist and hairdresser.
The costs of traveling in his private plane, which Donald Trump travels between his various properties, such as food or gas, were also counted as business expenses, the New York Times continues.
"AOC" scathing reaction
The daily also cites the example of its Seven Springs property, which it classified as an investment to wipe out $ 2.2 million (1.9 million euros) in taxes on the property. The Trump clan has however often referred to this property as a second home.
As the "New York Times" points out, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax administration, allows business expenses to be deducted from taxes if they are "ordinary and necessary", these terms often being very freely interpreted by some entrepreneurs.
Pointed out in October for a hairdresser's bill deemed high, Democrat MP Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was quick to react to this detail revealed by the "New York Times": "Last year, the Republicans set me on fire. hate and vitriol for giving myself a $ 250 haircut and locks for my birthday, she wrote on Twitter. Where are the critics when their idol spends $ 70,000 on a hairdresser? "
Last year Republicans blasted a firehose of hatred + vitriol my way because I treated myself to a $250 cut & lowlights on my birthday.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 28, 2020
Where’s the criticism of their idol spending $70k on hairstyling?
Oh, it’s nowhere because they’re spineless, misogynistic hypocrites? Got it. https://t.co/xCQGwW7EK5
Trump refutes these revelations
In addition to revealing that Donald Trump had paid only $ 750 in federal income tax the year he won the presidency, in 2016, and as much “his first year in the White House”, the “New York Times ”reveals that he has“ paid no income tax at all in ten of the previous fifteen years, largely because he has reported more money lost than gains, ”writes the American daily.
After the publication of the "New York Times", Donald Trump denounced "bogus information, totally invented". "I paid a lot, and I paid a lot of state income taxes as well," he added without elaborating.
Donald Trump's tax returns are at the heart of a legal battle, with the president consistently refusing to release them unlike all of his predecessors since the 1970s.
While the New York businessman had built his notoriety on his success, these revelations strongly scratch the image of a fine negotiator and genius entrepreneur he wanted to build for himself.
They could offer arguments of choice to his opponent Joe Biden, during the first debate on Tuesday evening. But with just over a month before the election and with Trump counting on a loyal basis, nothing is said to be influencing the outcome of the poll.
