A US House of Representatives committee revealed former President Donald Trump's tax returns today, Friday, after a long legal battle.

Trump's tax returns show significant fluctuations in his income levels and taxes from 2015 through 2020, with the former president and his wife claiming large losses that forced them to pay little income tax many times of those years.

Publication of these declarations would reveal whether Trump's statements about his wealth are true, and whether there is any conflict of interest between his personal business and the official position he has held for 4 years.

The former US president's tax data will be available for in-depth investigations by journalists, independent tax experts and others, from now until the 2024 presidential election, and could shed light on Trump's wealth, business performance and ways he has taken to reduce his tax liabilities.

Donald Trump strongly denounced this decision in a statement sent to CBS, stressing that these statements "show my success again," as he said.

The Republican billionaire - who announced his intention to run in the next presidential elections in 2024 - had refrained from publishing his tax returns, contrary to a tradition followed by all his predecessors since the seventies of the last century, which raised many questions about their content.

In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted in favor of publishing Trump's annual tax returns for the period between 2015 and 2020.

For 3 years, this committee has been demanding that it hand over the tax returns belonging to Trump, but the latter refused and resorted to the judiciary to prevent the IRS from handing over this data.

However, the judicial battle that Trump fought to reach the Supreme Court ended in late November, when the Supreme Court upheld the position of the Parliamentary Committee.