“President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
Rick Scott
U.S. Senator, R-Fla.. Claim dated 7 Feb 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Some experts consider the tactic to be an "aggressive" way to legally avoid taxes. But experts agreed it would not be characterized as "cheating," much less illegal.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rick Scott (U.S. Senator, R-Fla.) made this claim around 7 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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