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The US Department of the Treasury received an order on Friday to deliver several tax returns from former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) to Congress, which brings the possibility of those records being made public.
In a report, the Justice Department determined that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS, Treasury), which depends on the Treasury, must turn over those Trump financial records to a committee of the House of Representatives, which requested them in 2019.
"The legal status on this issue is clear: the secretary (of the Treasury) 'must provide' the requested tax information if he receives a 'written request' from the chairman of one of the three Congressional committees that oversee taxes," wrote
Dawn Johnsen
of the Justice Department's office of legal counsel.
Trump was the first American president since Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
not to publish his
tax
return every year
, a tradition that his predecessors considered part of his duty of transparency and accountability to the people.
In 2019, the Democratic majority on the House Ways and Means committee requested Trump's tax returns for six years, from 2011 to 2018.
The committee wanted to obtain those documents to
investigate the
then president's
finances
and potential conflicts of interest, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to provide them.
That struggle unleashed a
litigation
that is still active in the courts, but the change of position of the Department of Justice, in charge of defending the Government in the US courts, promises to pave the way for its resolution and for the delivery of the statements to Congress. .
"Access to former President Trump's tax returns is a national security issue," House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Democrat
, said
in a statement on
Friday
.
Pelosi welcomed the Justice Department's decision and stressed that Americans "deserve to know the facts of the worrying conflicts of interest" that Trump may have incurred while in office.
From his first election campaign, Trump refused to publish his tax returns on the grounds that it was subject to an
audit
by the IRS, although numerous legal experts assured that no rule prevented him from having disclosed them if he had wanted to.
The Justice Department's decision comes a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Trump to turn over his tax returns to a prosecutor investigating his finances in New York.
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