House Democrats now have 6 years of Trump's tax returns after a years-long legal battle

• House Democrats obtained Donald Trump's federal tax returns after a years-long legal battle.
• The Democrat-led panel initially requested his personal returns in 2019 when Trump was still president.
• The move came just a week after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to block the panel from receiving the records.

A Democratic-led House committee has now received six years of former President Donald Trump's federal tax returns, ending a years-long pursuit by the congressional panel to obtain his records.

The Treasury Department sent Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, led by Chairman Richard Neal, who had first requested the records in April 2019. Trump had legally challenged releasing his returns over the years, yet the Supreme Court last week ultimately rejected his bid, clearing the way for the panel to receive them.

"Treasury has complied with last week's court decision," a Treasury spokesperson on Wednesday told CNN, which first reported the news.

Neal had asked for Trump's personal tax returns and those of his businesses from the Internal Revenue Service as part of an investigation into the agency's auditing process, months after Democrats won the House in the 2018 midterm elections.

Trump had infamously broke with tradition when he refused to publicly release his tax records during his 2016 campaign and kept them under wraps during his term in office. Trump had defended that he was under audit, though records can still be released then.

House Democrats have little time to review the returns as Republicans are set to take over the lower chamber on January 3 and don't intend to take up the issue. Neal told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday that Democrats plan to meet together as a caucus to discuss next moves, though he did not delve further into the matter.

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By: [email protected] (Lauren Frias,Oma Seddiq)
Title: House Democrats now have 6 years of Trump's tax returns after a years-long legal battle
Sourced From: www.businessinsider.com/house-committee-donald-trumps-federal-tax-returns-from-irs-2022-11
Published Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:32:47 +0000

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