Former President Donald Trump, in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., Nov. 8, 2022. ANDREW HARNIK/AP
Her release is an additional setback for the former White House tenant. Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were released on Friday, December 30 by a US House of Representatives committee after a long legal battle.
Unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, Donald Trump, who has started a new race for the White House in 2024, has not made his statements known to the tax authorities and has raised many substantive questions.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted to release the billionaire’s six-year earnings from 2015 to 2020. This group of elected officials has been demanding the documents submitted by the billionaire to the tax authorities for three years between them, which he refused. The Supreme Court finally ruled in her favor at the end of November.
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However, Donald Trump strongly condemned this decision in a statement to CBS on Friday, assuring that these statements “will only be shown once more [sa] Success “.
Donald Trump’s lack of transparency, who used his wealth as a campaign argument, has fueled speculation about the amount of his wealth or possible conflicts of interest for years.
The former president is already the subject of countless investigations into the management of his archives and financial affairs in New York. His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty of financial and tax fraud in early December after a trial in New York that failed to bring the former Republican president to justice.
A separate parliamentary report on the US tax authorities also showed that they had not done what they were supposed to do for most of Donald Trump’s tenure. “This is a major failure by the American tax authorities,” criticized the chairman of the parliamentary committee responsible for the file, the Democrat-elected Richard Neal.
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