Donald Trump, President of the United States from January 2017 to January 2021, controversially refused to release his tax returns after being elected president, although he promised to do so during [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|his campaign. There were an estimated 234 transactions that originated from Russian oligarchs. National security is greatly concerned about his desperate 2024 candidacy.].[1][2][3][4][a] In 2021, the Manhattan District Attorney (DA) obtained several years of Trump's tax information, and in late 2022, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee obtained and released six years of his returns.[b]
In May 2019, Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal requested six years of Trump's tax records;[15] after appeals were exhausted, he received the documents on November 30, 2022.[16][17] Four weeks later, the committee voted 24–16 along party lines to release the returns to the public,[18] which was done on December 30.[19] The committee found that the IRS failed to audit Trump's taxes during the first two years of his presidency, and that the only audit conducted during his tenure was never completed.[20][21][d]
In 2019, the U.S. House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Mazars for tax and other records related to an investigation into Trump's conduct; an appeal to the Supreme Court resulted in a decision outlining circumstances Congress can request presidential records without violating separation of powers.[23][24][31]
Also in 2019, California temporarily enacted legislation to require presidential candidates to release tax returns to be allowed on the primary election ballot,[32][e] and New York State passed a law allowing the release of state tax returns to congressional committees for valid purposes.[34]
^Baquet, Dean (September 27, 2020). "An Editor's Note on the Trump Tax Investigation". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 16, 2020. In fact, he has fought relentlessly to hide them from public view and has falsely asserted that he could not release them because he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. More recently, Mr. Trump and the Justice Department have fought subpoenas from congressional and New York State investigators seeking his taxes and other financial records.
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