Research has confirmed reports that Orangeman Trump is now eligible for hefty tax breaks after having his ex-wife buried on the Trump-owned golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. 73 year-old Ivana Trump died in her Manhattan home on July 14 from "blunt impact injuries" to her torso, The Washington Post reported of an autopsy report from New York City's chief medical examiner. Ivana was initially found unconscious on a staircase in her home after police got an emergency call around 12:40 PM, the Post reported. Her death was ruled an accident, and her remains were buried at the Trump National Golf Club.
"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,” Brooke Harrington, a sociology professor at Dartmouth College, tweeted. “So I checked the NJ tax code & folks … it's a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated."
Harrington cited New Jersey tax code and documents the ProPublica news nonprofit published indicating tax exemptions in place since May 2016 for what’s deemed a nonprofit cemetery service. The Trump Family Trust is located in Hackettstown, New Jersey, some 20 miles northeast of Ivana’s gravesite.
Cemetery property is also “exempt from sale for collection of judgments,” and cemetery trust funds and trust income are “exempt from tax and exempt from sale or seizure for collection of judgments against the cemetery company,” New Jersey law states.
Trump's plans to use a portion of his 500-acre golf club as a burial ground were detailed in a 2012 NPR story. In that piece, journalist Nancy Solomon wrote that any member of the golf club "who pays about $150,000 to join and an additional $20,000 in annual dues" could be buried at the cemetery.
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