Cheat here, cheat there, cheat everywhere
Donald Trump says the Trump National Golf Club in Florida is worth more than $50m. Palm Beach County property tax appraiser Dorothy Jacks disagrees, saying the Jupiter course, where Trump plays when he visits nearby Mar-a-Lago, is actually worth $19m.
Oh burn. She’s dissing his valuable golf club resort luxury escape.
The president’s lawyers are now suing Jacks, saying her estimate and the nearly $400,000 property tax bill it generates are too high, even if her appraisal is only 40% of what the president listed in his 2017 financial disclosure form.
Oh so he’s saying it’s worse less than 50 million…and less than 19 million too. Or I suppose that it changes value depending on whether we’re talking about taxes or selling price.
Trump’s company, Jupiter Golf LLC, does not say in the lawsuit how much it thinks the course is currently worth, but it sent the county nearly $300,000 as a good-faith estimate of what it believes the tax bill should be. That would make the course worth $15m.
Well that’s quite similar to 50. Less than a third of it, yes, but still quite similar.
Also? He cheats at golf.
Suzann Pettersen, the 15-time LPGA Tour winner and a golfing partner of Donald Trump, says the president “cheats like hell” on the golf course.
Pettersen, who has known Trump for a decade and says she is fond of the president even though she does not agree with his policies, was speaking to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.
“He cheats like hell … so I don’t quite know how he is in business,” said Pettersen. “They say that if you cheat at golf, you cheat at business. I’m pretty sure he pays his caddie well, since no matter how far into the woods he hits the ball, it’s in the middle of the fairway when we get there.”
Maybe God moves it.
If he pays his caddie well, or at all, that would be something.
Funny, In New Zealand if you claim an asset that is taxable to have a specific value, that’s the value you pay the tax on (greatly simplified statement). If a property is assessed at a value that is markedly different from what you think it should be there is an administrative route for challenging that. You don’t sue.
Yeah, Rob, but he’s suing when they are charging him waaaaayyyyyy less than what he would pay based on what he claimed it was worth!
He’s really something, isn’t he? What, I don’t think I’ll say.
Never one to be an unsuing hero.