The Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump must present his tax returns for the period between 2013 and 2018 to the Committee on Forms and the House of Representatives.
This decision follows a battle that dates back to 2019, when that committee issued a subpoena to access this information while investigating the possibility that the former president had committed tax violations.
The decision of the Supreme Court this Tuesday came to revoke the temporary block on the delivery of statements to the House of Representatives, which had been determined by the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, after Trump asked that they be kept secret. Roberts determined that the case would be stayed pending review by that court and asked the committee to respond to the former president’s request. The response was that such a decision would be detrimental to the congressional investigation.
US Court Asks Supreme Court to Refuse to Keep Trump’s Tax Returns Secret
With just a month to go before the Democrats relinquish control of the House of Representatives, Donald Trump nearly evaded filing his tax returns. Republicans won a majority after the last midterm elections and will take control on January 3, leaving just a few weeks for the parliamentary inquiry to get the documents.
Trump was the first president of the United States of America in the last 40 years to not fill out his tax returns every year, breaking the tradition considered as a duty of transparency and accountability to the people.
Source: Observadora
