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December 30, 2022 at 10:09 AM
A House panel released six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, the culmination of a years-long battle between Democrats and the former president who exhausted all legal options to keep his financial records private.
The returns, which include his personal and business filings from 2015 to 2020, are the first complete look into Trump’s tax records for the years he was running for office and in the White House.
The release comes just days before Democrats relinquish their House majority, which will end much of their ability to investigate him.
The documents shed light on the sources of the president’s earnings and the taxes he paid, including one year where he paid nothing in federal income tax. The records also show large deductions that Congress’s non-partisan tax experts have said warrant more scrutiny.
Tax returns are intended to report income — not total wealth — so the documents don’t reveal Trump’s net worth. Even business returns only report the purchase price for an asset, such as a building, not the valuation.
Read Trump’s tax returns.
The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee released the returns as part of their investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s presidential audit program, which found that the agency had failed to examine Trump’s tax returns while in office, as has been done with previous presidents.
