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1719-Today Liechtenstein
1919 The history of Panama as a tax haven began with Standard Oil to escape US taxes and regulations by registering their foreign ships under the Panamanian flag.
1930s John Foster Dulles letter to a British colleague on cartels
1969 Tax Reform Act of 1969
1980 The Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980
1980 The Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 exempts from the tax im-posed by the Act domestic crude oil defined as oil produced from wells...
1980-Today Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)
1980s During a bust in the oil industry in Oklahoma and Texas, Kaiser bought up struggling energy companies whose losses provided him with tax deductions that effectively offset his own income and left him with little or no tax liability.
1981 An auditor insisted the value should be increased by $100,000, to $3 million. (Fred and Donald Trump's property Park Briar)
1981 Donald Trump recruited him(Von Ancken) after Fred Trump Jr. died and the family needed friendly appraisals to help shield the estate from taxes.
1987 By 1987, for example, Donald Trump's loan debt to his father had grown to at least $11 million. Yet canceling the debt would have required Donald Trump to pay millions in taxes on the amount forgiven.
1987 Father and son found another solution, one never before disclosed, that appears to constitute both an unreported multimillion-dollar gift and a potentially illegal tax write-off.
1987 Most, if not all, of his investment, which totaled $15.5 million, was made by exchanging his son's unpaid debts for Trump Palace shares, records show.
1991 Four years later, in December 1991, Fred Trump sold his entire stake in Trump Palace for just $10,000, his tax returns and financial statements reveal.
1992 By contrast, Mr. Von Ancken's GRAT appraisals found that the crown jewels of Fred Trump's empire, Beach Haven and Shore Haven, with five times as many apartments as Patio Gardens, were together worth just $23 million, or $11.01 per square foot.
1992 In 1992, he donated Patio Gardens to the National Kidney Foundation of New York/New Jersey, one of the largest charitable donations he ever made.
1992 The greater the value of Patio Gardens, the bigger his deduction. The appraisal cited in Fred Trump's 1992 tax return valued Patio Gardens at $34 million, or $61.90 a square foot.
1992-? All County Building Supply & Maintenance
1993 This added hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the 60 boilers, money that then flowed through All County to Fred Trump's children without incurring any gift tax.
1995-1997 Then Fred and Mary Trump gave their children roughly two-thirds of the assets in their GRATs. The children bought the remaining third by making annuity payments to their parents over the next two years.
1998 By 1998, records show, All County and Apartment Management were generating today's equivalent of $2.2 million a year for each of the Trump children.
2006 Randa Williams inherited $3.1 billion upon the death of her father. Due to a temporary repeal in the estate tax law for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment.
2008 Liechtenstein tax affair
2010 Milane Frantz inherited $3.1B upon the death of her father. Due to a temporary repeal in the estate tax law for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment.
2013 Offshore Leaks
2016 BBC - Panama Papers: How did Panama become a tax haven?
2016 Justice's mining companies have a history of safety violation and unpaid taxes, in 2016, NPR called him the "top mine safety delinquent" in the United States.
2017 Paradise Papers
2018 NYT - Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
2019 Bloomberg - The Jeffrey Epstein Guide to Cutting Your Tax Bill by 90%
2019 Yahoo finance - Amazon most 'aggressive' in $100bn global tax avoidance
2020 Forbes - Billionaire Branson Asks For Government Money To Save Virgin Atlantic, Claims He 'Did Not Leave Britain For Tax Reasons'
2020 Johnny Harris - Where the U.S. Hides its Secrets
2026 hoser - The World's Biggest Scam.
2026 The Spooky Lawyer - The Epstein Story Nobody is Talking About
Although Fred Trump became wealthy with help from federal housing subsidies, he insisted that it was manifestly unfair for the government to tax his fortune as it passed to his children.
An investigation by Urban Milwaukee found that Hendricks's multi-story 8,500-square-foot home in the Town of Rock in Rock County, Wisconsin had been assessed as a 1,663-square-foot ranch.
Barter
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS)
Big Four accounting firms
British Heligoland
Corporate tax avoidance
Corporations and the wealthy are the biggest beneficiaries of the IRS' decay. Most Americans' interaction with the IRS is largely automated. But it takes specialized, well-trained personnel to audit a business or a billionaire or to unravel a tax scheme -
Dannine Avara
Dog tax
Donald Trump also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents' real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
Dutch Sandwich
Duty-free shop
From the taxpayer's standpoint, the advantage of bringing a dispute to the Tax Court is that payment of the deficiencies is stayed until the case is decided.
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors
Mr. Von Ancken appraised the 25 apartment complexes and other properties in the Trumps' GRATs and concluded that their total value was $93.9 million, tax records show.
Mr. Walter, asked during a deposition why Fred Trump chose not to make himself one of All County's owners, replied, "He said because he would have to pay a death tax on it."
Offshore bank
Offshore financial centre (OFC)
Pooled income fund (PIF)
Recycling the legally dubious techniques they had mastered with the GRATs, they dodged tens of millions of dollars in estate taxes on the remnants of empire that Fred Trump still owned when he died, The Times found.
Skinny Houses
Splitting ownership into minority interests is a widely used method of tax avoidance. There is one circumstance, however, where it has at times been found to be illegal.
Tax avoidance in the United States
Tax haven
The line between legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion is often murky, and it is constantly being stretched by inventive tax lawyers.
The Oxford Club
The Tax Court hears about 80% of the cases brought by taxpayers disputing IRS notices of deficiency. As is typical of an Article I court, the judges are appointed for 15-year terms rather than for life:
They said the conduct described here represented a pattern of deception and obfuscation, particularly about the value of Fred Trump's real estate, that repeatedly prevented the I.R.S. from taxing large transfers of wealth to his children.
Venture capital
Window tax
With Venture Capital returns are highly leveraged and are also taxed much less