How Harlan Crow Slashed His Tax Bill, By Taking Clarence Thomas On Superyacht Cruises

They are a news organization. I believe it was yourself, who had noted that laws allow the Press, the freedom to share such information, even if it was illegally leaked to them. So no, I am not against freedom of the Press.

To deduct pleasure sailing, as a business expense, violates tax laws. Who is saying this, you ask: Pro Publica. You were just complaining, because they have this information; are you now going to allege that they don't have the information, to report this? As I have already said: pick a lane. You can claim that they are doing something wrong, by sharing confidential information, or you can claim that Pro Publica has no legitimate basis, for their contention. But you can't maintain both objections, because they contradict one another. They have the info, or they don't. If they have it, it is laughable to suggest they have been lying about what it says. If they are, Crow has the funds to take them to court, in a defamation suit.

It is not for me, to prove-- it is for the IRS, to investigate.

 

And the PUBLIC, yes or no do you believe in the right to privacy and your most personal private information being kept private and laws against making it PUBLIC? What about medical records can anyone release your medical records to the public?

Not if you are entertaining customers. Fishing, hunting, golfing, eating, going to sports events or other entertainment expense, been there and done it all.

They are the claims being made that Thomas had something to do with slashing Crow's tax bill, prove it or admit it's nonsense.

 

Of course they don't. Your counter point makes no sense. The point of the OP is that not only was Harlen influencing the court or attempting to, he was also using it to pay less taxes.

 

AND he was implying. that somehow Thomas had a role in that. READ the damn thread title.

 

Yes, you can deduct the expense, if the primary purpose was to entertain clients. Are you calling Clarence Thomas, one of Harlan Crow's "customers?"


This is what the news organization is reporting: the allegation that Crow's personal pleasure cruises, were misrepresented as business expenses. Just having one business related conversation, would not be sufficient, for legally writing off an entire vacation. If the news organization is misreporting something, Crow can challenge it & demand a retraction, or he can sue for defamation. But he has not done either-- I suspect, because the reporting is accurate.


P.S.-- Your other two points, I have already answered: a news organization is not the same as "the public." And it is due only to erroneous reading, that you think there has been a claim that Thomas was involved in slashing Crow's taxes, other than through his being the one entertained, on some of the trips, for which Crow falsely claimed a business deduction.