The shocking claim that Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal taxes has dominated headlines after a New York Times report into his financial affairs, but it is far from the only surprising sum exposed by the documents. Here are some of the key figures:
$750
Federal tax Trump paid in 2016, when he won the presidency.
$750
Federal tax Trump paid the following year.
Zero
Federal tax paid by Trump in 10 of the previous 15 years, including 2014 and 2015.
$100,000 a year
By comparison, the kind of figure regularly paid in federal taxes by Trump’s predecessors, Barack Obama and George W Bush
$70,000
Paid to style Trump’s hair for television, claimed as expenses.
$95,464
The total sum nine of Trump’s companies have paid as expenses to style Ivanka Trump’s hair.
$210,000
The amount written off as expenses to hire a photographer taking photographs at the Mar-a-Lago club.
$26m
“Consulting fees” charged as a business expense between 2010 and 2018, at least some of which appears…
