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Trump's Tax Returns Must Be Released to Congress


The Justice Department (DOJ), said Friday, that the IRS Must turn over Trump's Income Tax Returns, from 2015 to 2020, to Congress.

The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, said in its Opinion, that the House Ways and Means Committee had given "sufficient reasons" for Requesting the Information.

When a Congressional Tax Committee, asks for such Tax Information, "the executive branch should conclude that the request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose only in exceptional circumstances," the Office of Legal Counsel said.

The Opinion is a Reversal from the Office of Legal Counsel's previous Position. In 2019, inder the Trump Administration, it concluded just the Opposite, agreeing with the Trump administration, that Congress Lacked a Legitimate legislative purpose and simply want to try to embarrass Trump.

The Opinion, Friday, said that 2019 finding “went astray” in saying the Executive Branch should closely Scrutinize Congress’s stated Justifications.

The Senate Finance and the House Ways and Means Committees, have the Right to Request “any return or return information.” The only Caveat is that if the Request involves a Specific Identifiable Individual, the Committee must View the Return Privately.










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