DOJ Rules That Trump’s Tax Returns Must Be Released

CNBC reports:

The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress, the Department of Justice said Friday.

The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel said in an opinion that the House Ways and Means Committee had made a request with a legitimate legislative purpose to see Trump’s tax returns.

The decision comes more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court said that Trump’s tax returns and other financial records had to be turned over by his longtime accountants to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., because of a subpoena issued as part of Vance’s criminal probe of the Trump Organization.

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“The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former President’s tax information… Treasury must furnish the information to the Committee.”

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