tax evasion

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• 7/18/2021
  

  Trump Cheated on His Taxes. What Happens Now?

  by James D. Zirin

  "When I was a federal prosecutor going after white collar criminals, I always looked for the accountant. He was the most likely witness for the government."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/1/2020
  

  A Brief History of the Taxpayer in Chief

  by Margaret O'Mara

  The revelation, at the height of the Watergate investigation, that Richard Nixon had abused deductions to avoid nearly all of his tax obligations initiated modern interest in presidential candidates' tax returns. 

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  3-31-13
  

  Shakespeare a tax-evading food hoarder?

  As well as writing many of the world’s greatest plays, he was a successful businessman and major landowner in his native Warwickshire who retired an extremely wealthy man.However, a new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food, and threatened with jail for failing to pay his taxes, The Sunday Times reported.Court and tax records show that over a 15-year period Shakespeare purchased grain, malt and barley to store and resell for inflated prices, according to a paper by Aberystwyth University academics Dr Jayne Archer, Professor Richard Marggraf Turley and Professor Howard Thomas....