Trump Sons Say President Pays Payroll Taxes, Uses ‘Loopholes’

Donald Trump’s companies pay millions of dollars in payroll, real estate and other taxes, his sons said Tuesday in defending their father against the New York Times’ reporting on the president’s avoidance of income tax.

In a pair of separate television interviews Tuesday morning, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. disputed the Times’ stories while acknowledging some of their underpinnings: that Donald Trump, as a real estate developer, has exploited depreciation, tax credits and other provisions of the tax code to reduce his personal tax bill.

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

“He’s paying tens of millions in taxes -- now, he’s not going ...