The House Ways and Means Committee expects to launch former President Donald Trump’s redacted tax returns on Friday, a senior committee staffer confirmed to CBS News.
The committee voted final week to make parts of six years of Trump’s tax returns public, ending the previous president’s lengthy battle of attempting to defend them from the general public. The committee then launched two studies, one from its members and one other from the Joint Committee on Taxation, noting the IRS didn’t audit Trump the primary two years he was in workplace. The House final week handed a legislation largely alongside occasion traces that might require the IRS to audit presidents’ tax returns and make studies of the audits public.
The committee’s chairman famous redactions to guard delicate data would come with issues like Social Security numbers, PINs and financial institution accounts.
The transfer to launch Trump’s returns comes days earlier than Republicans take management of the House in January. Trump is the primary president since Richard Nixon to haven’t launched his tax returns publicly.
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— Scott MacFarlane contributed to this report
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