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The article discusses how Donald Trump avoided paying millions of dollars in federal income taxes by using a legally dubious method in the early 1990s as he faced financial ruin. The tax avoidance maneuver was later outlawed by Congress and is considered to have stretched the limits of what tax laws permitted at the time. Tax experts who reviewed the documents for The New York Times said that Trump's tax avoidance maneuvers were not exploitation but rather pushing the envelope beyond recognition, raising questions about his ethics and financial practices.