The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted to release years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns and revealed that the IRS did not perform mandatory audits during his first two years in office.
The panel voted to release Trump's tax returns from his years in office after winning a yearslong court battle to obtain them even though the IRS was required to turn over the information to the committee by law. The committee said it discovered that the IRS failed to carry out mandatory audits of the former president's taxes until the same day that Ways and Means Chairman Richie Neal, D-Mass., sent a written request in April 2019 for the information. Trump, who defied decades of tradition by refusing to release his tax returns, had repeatedly falsely claimed that he could not release his tax returns himself because he was under audit.
