Trump, Clinton Lines on Hedge Fund Tax Payments Puzzle Experts
The political line focuses on a single aspect of the U.S. tax code that actually benefits financial players like private-equity investors far more.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media before a campaign event on Sept. 23, 2015, in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Here’s something Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton actually agree on: hedge funders pay almost nothing in taxes.
But that election-season refrain, from Republicans and Democrats alike, puzzles many tax experts.