It’s a cemetery AND a farm
Ahhh what a lovely man – he buried the ex on his golf course because tax break. The sentimental old fool.
When Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, was buried last month near the first hole of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, few immediately guessed that her grave’s location might also serve her ex-husband’s long-held tax planning purposes.
Well at least near the first hole is special. Could have been the fifth, or behind the pro shop.
Tax code in New Jersey exempts cemetery land from all taxes, rates, and assessments – and her grave, as such, potentially has advantageous tax implications for a Trump family trust that owns the golf business, in a state where property and land taxes are notoriously high.
“Look! We buried Mom here! The whole thing is now a cemetery! Now look over there for a minute while I move my ball out of the sand trap.”
Brooke Harrington, a professor of sociology at Dartmouth college in New Hampshire, tweeted on Saturday that she had looked into claims that Ivana Trump’s resting place might benefit her ex-husband’s tax planning from beyond the grave.
“As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks. So I checked the NJ tax code & folks…it’s a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated,” Harrington wrote, after opinions accusing Trump of being primarily motivated by the possibility of a tax break began popping up on social media.
Well, he’s sentimental that way.
Ivana Trump was buried in a plot close to the first tee of the golf course, following her funeral in Manhattan on 20 July. Her resting place is marked with a rudimentary wreath of white flowers and an engraved granite stone.
And it’s near the first tee, so, super classy.
[E]very break counts, and the former president has previously designated the plot as a farm because some trees on the site are turned into mulch used for flower beds, according to the Washington Post.
And that doesn’t make it a farm??
Let me guess, he’ll bury Marla at hole 2 at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, and Ivanka at hole 3 at Trump Ferry Point, New York?
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It’s also a really miserly headstone for a wealthy person, even more so for the ex-wife of a very wealthy person and mother to three very wealthy children. I mean, I see headstones from middle class families that are larger and more ornate.
Don’t get me wrong, my ideal is an eco burial with no marker, but I’m guessing the Trump’s have different concepts of such things compared to me.
How is Donald in charge of burying his ex-wife? I guess through his kids?
My god, I keep learning new crazy shit about USA. Turns out you can just……………bury people wherever you want when they die. And states even offer tax incentives as encouragement!
Holms, I don’t think that’s quite true. There are very restrictive laws in many states even about burying your dog on your property. It could be that New Jersey isn’t as restrictive, or that they make exceptions for extremely wealthy asshole ex-Presidents…or he may have jumped through a few hoops to get the cemetery permit. I know I can’t even be transported to the place of my burial after I die without being embalmed first…I am one of those who wants a more eco-friendly burial. Depending on the state where I die, that may not be permitted. If I die in the state where I am to be buried, it will be possible, so if I have the money, the time, and the mental capacity to plan ahead, I could be sure to move there in time.
Why should he have any say in where his EX-wife is buried? They were divorced, for heaven’s sake. Her estate plan should govern that disposition. Geez Louise.