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Donald Trump, the windbag real estate magnate planning to turn the Old Post Office into a gaudy hotel, has a problem with his expected tax bill from D.C.: It’s yoooooge.

Washington Business Journal reports that Trump is trying to get out of paying D.C.’s “possessory interest tax,” which is levied on private companies and vendors that conduct business on government property that would otherwise be exempt from local taxation. The tax, implemented in 2000, is collected at the same rate as the city’s commercial property tax.

The Old Post Office, of course, is a federal property that the General Services Administration awarded to the Trump Organization last February. But Trump has been squirming away from coughing up its fair share of taxes, which Washington Business Journal estimates could be as much or even greater than the $3 million the Donald will be paying annually to lease the historic tower.

The lattice-haired loudmouth started attempting to get out of his tax bill last summer, when he sent “Trump operatives” to negotiate with D.C. officials for some kind of tax relief. The city turned them down. (Trump has previously dispatched his so-called “operatives” to dig up dirt on President Obama’s birth records, a search that was even less fruitful than the tax relief plea.)

But the District has taken a firm line lately on collecting the possessory interest tax. It settled last Friday with the companies that control Union Station’s retail and parking spaces, which agreed to pay $7.5 million in back taxes and drop a lawsuit fighting the tax’s validity.

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