{"id":18859,"date":"2019-04-03T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/key-house-democrat-formally-asks-for-trumps-tax-returns\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:35:03","slug":"key-house-democrat-formally-asks-for-trumps-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/key-house-democrat-formally-asks-for-trumps-tax-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Key House Democrat Formally Asks For Trump’s Tax Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he was “not inclined” to adhere to a demand from a congressional Democrat for the IRS to hand over copies of the president’s tax returns.<\/p>\n

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Democrats have long called for President Trump to release his tax returns, and now a key congressman has put in a formal request with the IRS. <\/p>\n

Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is requesting six years of Trump’s personal tax returns and the returns for some of his businesses for the years 2013-2018. Neal argues that Congress, and his committee in particular, need to conduct oversight of the IRS, including its policy of auditing the tax returns of sitting presidents.<\/p>\n

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“We have completed the necessary groundwork for a request of this magnitude and I am certain we are within our legitimate legislative, legal, and oversight rights,” he said in a statement about the request.<\/p>\n

Neal said the action was about “policy, not politics.”<\/p>\n

“My actions reflect an abiding reverence for our democracy and our institutions, and are in no way based on emotion of the moment or partisanship,” he said.<\/p>\n

In his letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig<\/a>, Neal asked for the information by April 10.<\/p>\n