Donald Trump must make his tax returns public, international news agencies report. A House of Representatives committee voted Tuesday for the publication of the declarations made by the former president between 2015 and 2020. The Republicans on the committee voted against, but were in the minority.
The committee members were also highly critical of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which only began auditing the then president’s tax returns in 2019. In doing so, the IRS did not abide by its own rules. The committee urges Congress to tighten those controls through a law.
Trump has been fighting a legal battle for years to keep his tax records private. That Trump, who recently ran again for the presidential election in 2024, has never released his tax returns is remarkable. All previous presidents have done so since the 1970s. Trump’s refusal to provide access fuels speculation around possible conflicts of interest and the size of his fortune. In early December, his family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty of tax fraud after a trial in New York.
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