Richard Neal set a new deadline for the IRS to furnish the committee with the president’s tax returns: 5 p.m. on April 23
Washington — Rep. Richard Neal, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, on Saturday set a new deadline for the IRS to furnish President Trump’s tax returns: 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23.
« I am aware that concerns have been raised regarding my request and the authority of the Committee, » Neal wrote to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. « Those concerns lack merit. Moreover, judicial precedent commands that none of the concerns raised can legitimately be used to deny the Committee’s request. »
Neal argued the statute used in his request, Section 6103, was « unambiguous and raises no complicated legal issues that warrant supervision or review » by either the Treasury Department or the Justice Department.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin responded to the request for six years of the president’s taxes by saying he would not be able to review the request for the president’s tax returns by April 10, the original deadline set by Neal.
