Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)

611.909 - 636.108 PJ Vogt

The whistleblower had gone back over 15 years, grabbing the tax returns for thousands of the wealthiest Americans and dumped them into this file. Forbes every year publishes their Forbes 400 list, guessing at the richest Americans and their net worth. But this was the real thing, government certified. In practice, what this looked like was fields and fields of data, spreadsheets on spreadsheets.