New York Senate Passes Bill Allowing Release Of Trump’s State Taxes

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin broke the law to keep Congress from seeing Trump’s federal tax returns — but Trump’s state tax returns from New York could soon be available to Congress thanks to a bill making its way through the New York Legislature.

The New York state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday allowing state tax returns to be handed over to Congress upon request.

The New York Times reports that the bill would allow the commissioner of the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return if requested for a “specific and legitimate legislative purpose” by one of three congressional committees: House Ways and Means, Senate Finance, or the Joint Committee on Taxation.

View the complete May 8 article by Dan Desai Martin on the National Memo website here.