IRS to hand Trump tax returns over to Congress by order of Justice Department

The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had “invoked sufficient reasons” for requesting them.

Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, earlier in July. The memos show Trump pressing the former acting attorney general and his deputy in a December call.
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The news was a second blow for Trump in a matter of hours, after released DoJ memos revealed that as part of his campaign to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden, he pressured top officials to falsely label the 2020 election as corrupt, then “leave the rest to me”.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi applauded the DoJ’s order to the IRS to release Trump’s tax returns to the ways and means committee.

“Today, the Biden administration has delivered a victory for the rule of law, as it respects the public interest by complying with Chairman [Richard] Neal’s request for Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Pelosi said in a statement.

“Access to former President Trump’s tax returns is a matter of national security. The American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president.”

Candidates for president traditionally disclose their tax returns, although they are not legally compelled to do so. Trump kept his out of the public eye when he ran for the White House in 2016, saying they were under IRS audit, and did not release them while in office.

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The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had “invoked sufficient reasons” for requesting them.

Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, earlier in July. The memos show Trump pressing the former acting attorney general and his deputy in a December call.
‘Just say the election was corrupt,’ Trump urged DoJ after loss to Biden
Read more
The news was a second blow for Trump in a matter of hours, after released DoJ memos revealed that as part of his campaign to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden, he pressured top officials to falsely label the 2020 election as corrupt, then “leave the rest to me”.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi applauded the DoJ’s order to the IRS to release Trump’s tax returns to the ways and means committee.

“Today, the Biden administration has delivered a victory for the rule of law, as it respects the public interest by complying with Chairman [Richard] Neal’s request for Donald Trump’s tax returns,” Pelosi said in a statement.

“Access to former President Trump’s tax returns is a matter of national security. The American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president.”

Candidates for president traditionally disclose their tax returns, although they are not legally compelled to do so. Trump kept his out of the public eye when he ran for the White House in 2016, saying they were under IRS audit, and did not release them while in office.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/30/donald-trump-tax-returns-irs-congress-doj

Trump promised for five years he'd release them himself; I'm glad they're finally coming out and can't wait to see what's in them.

Original Quill wrote:It's "as a matter of law".  By law the Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee can demand of the Commissioner of the IRS that s/he turn over anyone's tax return demanded.  Refusal is not discretionary.  Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code.

On May 6, 2019, the Secretary of the Treasury informed the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that, on the advice of the Department of Justice, he would not release the President’s tax return information because “the Committee’s request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.” The Secretary also
stated that the Department of Justice would publicly release its legal reasoning on the subject “as soon as practicable.”

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/LSB10275.pdf

The then Secretary of Treasury should be prosecuted, and imprisoned for his failure to follow the law as it directs him.