On Thursday, Pultizer Prize-winning business writer David Cay Johnston wrote an editorial laying out the hard truth for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin: he has no legal choice but to hand over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress. The law says he must.
“The reason will no doubt surprise those who think Trump can thumb his nose at the law governing Congressional access to anyone’s tax returns, including his,” wrote Johnston. “It will for sure shock Trump, who claims that ‘the law is 100 percent on my side.’”
But not so: “Under Section 6103 of our tax code, Treasury officials ‘shall’ turn over the tax returns ‘upon written request’ of the chair of either Congressional tax committee or the federal employee who runs the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. No request has ever been refused, a host of former Congressional tax aides tell me.”
View the complete April 12 article by Matthew Chapman of Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.