Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to stop the turning over of his tax returns to a House committee, the latest in a series of attempts by the former President to keep that information from going public.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday agreed to put a temporary hold on a lower court’s order requiring the Internal Revenue Service to release Trump’s tax returns to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.
“No Congress has ever wielded its legislative powers to demand a President’s tax returns,” Trump said in his emergency request to the Supreme Court.
Trump broke with recent tradition for presidents and presidential candidates by refusing to release his past tax records, insisting that he was under audit and therefore could not release the returns. He can release them even while he’s under audit. He has also repeatedly insisted that tax returns provide little financial information. (This is also not true.)
Trump’s repeated attempts to keep his tax returns private – over years – begs the simple question: Why? And there are several potential reasons that jump to mind:
5 reasons Donald Trump really doesn’t want his tax returns released (msn.com)
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