“People don’t care about my tax returns, I have no obligation to release them”, declared the most financially-conflicted president ever. While campaigning, Trump stated repeatedly that he would release his returns soon. Representative Richard Neal (D-MA), chairman of House Ways and Means committee, sent a formal request to the IRS, asking for the past six years of Trump’s returns. IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, presidential appointee, is conferring with Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, whom I expect to refuse to comply with the century-old legal authority. Congress will hold him in contempt and move to subpoena returns, which then goes to the courts. Meanwhile, New York legislators are seeking Trump’s state returns; with his business empire headquartered there, materials could likely contain much of the financial information on the federal returns. A bill recently passed in the House seeks to eliminate this situation in the future, and 25 states added a tax return requirement to the 2020 election ballot.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Apr 15 2019
What do I think of Democrats going after president Trump’s tax returns?
“People don’t care about my tax returns, I have no obligation to release them”, declared the most financially-conflicted president ever. While campaigning, Trump stated repeatedly that he would release his returns soon. Representative Richard Neal (D-MA), chairman of House Ways and Means committee, sent a formal request to the IRS, asking for the past six years of Trump’s returns. IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, presidential appointee, is conferring with Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, whom I expect to refuse to comply with the century-old legal authority. Congress will hold him in contempt and move to subpoena returns, which then goes to the courts. Meanwhile, New York legislators are seeking Trump’s state returns; with his business empire headquartered there, materials could likely contain much of the financial information on the federal returns. A bill recently passed in the House seeks to eliminate this situation in the future, and 25 states added a tax return requirement to the 2020 election ballot.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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