A committee of the United States Congress published this Friday the tax returns of the former president donald trump (2017-2021) for six years, including those of his term.
Trump had asked the Supreme Court to keep his statements secret, but the highest US court rejected your request last November 22.
Today, the Committee released the final piece of supporting evidence in our investigation into the IRS’s mandatory audit program under the prior administration.
Find Attachment E here ⬇️ https://t.co/i8iuviZaYe
—Ways & Means Committee (@WaysMeansCmte) December 30, 2022
In this way, according to an Efe report, the Ways and Means committee of the House of Representatives, controlled by the Democratic Party, closed a long dispute with Trump, who aspires to be the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
“A president is not an ordinary taxpayer. He has power and influence unlike any other American. And with great power comes even greater responsibility,” committee chairman Congressman Richard Neal said in a statement.
According to the review carried out by local media, the published documentation, with hundreds of pages, would reveal that the former president paid very little in income taxes during the years in which he was in government.
The battle over those statements dates back to 2019, when the Ways and Means committee issued a legal subpoena to access that information as part of its investigation into possible tax violations by Trump.
He based the petition on a 1924 law that allows the leaders of certain congressional committees, including Ways and Means, to demand that the Secretary of the Treasury and the US Treasury publish the tax returns of any taxpayer.
Trump, remember efewas the first US president since Gerald Ford (1974-1977) who did not publish his tax return every year, a tradition that his predecessors considered part of their duty of transparency and accountability to the people.
“You can’t get much out of a tax return, but it’s illegal to release it if it’s not yours!” Trump said last week, according to this source.
The former Republican president had alleged in the past that his statements were subject to an audit by the US Internal Revenue Service (Treasury), although numerous legal experts assured that no regulation prevented him from disclosing them if he wanted to.
With information from Efe.
