The move could end a long legal showdown over the former president’s tax records.
Donald Trump’s tax returns must be given to congressional investigators by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US Justice Department has said. In a memo on Friday, the department’s Office of Legal Counsel said the Treasury should provide the House Ways and Means Committee with the former Republican president’s tax details. The move could bring about the end of a long legal showdown over the records. It comes after Steven Mnuchin, who was then treasury secretary under the Trump administration, said that he would not hand over the tax returns. He argued that the records were being sought by Democrats, who controlled the House of Representatives, for « disingenuous » reasons aimed at exposing them to the public.
