• ryathal
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    1 year ago

    Debt doesn’t reduce taxes. Not having income reduces taxes.

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        1 year ago

        General debt payments aren’t deductible, certain interest payments are allowed, like mortgages, but there’s a cap.

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            1 year ago

            Debt never gets taxed, it’s not income. Debt forgiveness can be taxed as income though.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not a thing. Unless he was somehow laundering money through like cash mortgage payments and then refinancing cash out to spend.