Trump says he “takes” Harvard's tax exemption status “WEG”

President Trump said on Friday that Harvard would lose his tax -exhaustive status and repeated his intention to include the Internal Revenue Service in his feud with the wealthy research university and to improve the school's finances.

“We will take Harvard's tax exemption status away. It is what you earn!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media.

It was not immediately clear whether the IRS had actually progressed with the revocation of Harvard's tax exemption status, a change that only occurred after a long process. The Federal Law prohibits the President of leading the IRS to carry out tax investigations, and IRS employees who receive such a command must report it to a general inspector.

After Mr. Trump was publicly asked for the first time to lose his tax exemption for the first time last month, officials from the White House said that the IRS would draw his own conclusion as to whether this should do so.

Spokesman for the IRS and Financial Department Department, which monitors the tax collector, did not answer a request for statement. A Harvard spokesman said in a statement that there was “no legal basis for the lifting of the tax -exempt status of Harvard” and that “such an unprecedented complaint would endanger our ability to carry out our educational mission.

With his tax -free status, Harvard not only does not have to pay most of the taxes, but donors can also write down gifts in its own tax returns. The loss of the status would not only force Harvard to pay the federal government taxes, but could also lead to donations to dry out.

The intensive argument between the Trump administration and Harvard is part of a broad pressure campaign by the administration against some of the country's elite universities.

The Trump administration has painted many US schools as breeding grounds for anti -Semitism and discrimination, for which federal intervention is required.

In the past few weeks, Harvard has taken over a very confrontative attitude towards the Trump administration. The university rejected a number of government requirements, including the distinction between audits, the change in its approval and attitude of guidelines and with the determination of an outsider to “examine those programs and departments that cheer on most anti -Semitic harassment or reflect the ideological conquest”.

After the administration had frozen more than 2 billion US dollars for retaliation for Harvards despite frozen, the university sued.

Alan blind Reported reports.