The IRS must hand over Trump's tax returns to Congress, according to the feds
It’s unclear when or whether the IRS will hand over Trump’s taxes: A federal judge in January ordered the IRS to give Trump 72 hours’ notice before releasing his tax returns, and Trump’s lawyers — who intervened in a 2019 lawsuit from the House Ways and Means Committee over the returns — might fight to prevent their release.
, arguing Congress’ stated justification for wanting the records was merely a pretext, and lawmakers actually planned on making the former president’s tax returns public. Friday’s memo reverses this ruling: Biden-era DOJ lawyers concluded that tax officials should only reject seemingly valid requests from Congress in “exceptional circumstances.”Congressional Democrats have sought Trump’s taxes for years.