Tax,
Government,
Constitutional Law
Jan. 18, 2019
Does Congress have the power to access Trump taxes?
The House Ways and Means Committee wants access to the tax returns. Trump has said that he will try to block their release. He will presumably argue that the release serves no legitimate purpose and is motivated by the desire to gain a partisan political advantage.
John H. Minan
Emeritus Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Professor Minan is a former attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and the former chairman of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns claiming that they were undergoing an IRS audit. Although an audit does not prevent the voluntary release of a tax return, Trump cited the advice of unnamed attorneys to support his refusal. After being elected president, he claimed that the public didn't care about seeing the returns, rather it was only the media that wanted access to them. His most recent reason was that...
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