.MaddowBlog: Formal demand for Pres. Trump's tax returns touches off historic fight.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 4/3/19, 9:27 PM ET Ways and Means chair directs IRS to turn over Trump tax returns Rachel Maddow reports on the increased scrutiny of Donald Trump’s finances since Democrats took control of the House, and reviews the history of the tax law that compels the IRS to provide requested tax returns of any American, including the president, share tweet email save Embed For some of the president’s critics, the push for Donald Trump’s tax returns should’ve happened...
“I today submitted to IRS Commissioner Rettig my request for six years of the president’s personal tax returns as well as the returns for some of his business entities. 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,” Neal said in a statement.
Yesterday, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee decided to exercise that power. Since the law was created in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s, no administration has ever denied a lawmaker access to tax returns under this law.
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