Trump's firms paid $750 in taxes in US, $145,400 in India in 2017: NYT

Speaking at a news conference at the White House, Trump dismissed the report as fake news and said he has paid taxes, though he gave no specifics

President Donald Trump paid just USD 750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report on Sunday in The New York Times.

The report also said that he or his companies paid $ 145,400 as taxes in India in 2017.

Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years. He campaigned for office as a billionaire real estate mogul and successful