Following up on yesterday's post, WSJ: Weaponizing Tax Returns:
Official Documents
- House Ways & Means Committee, Report on the Internal Revenue Service's Mandatory Audit Program Under the Prior Administration(2017-2020)
- Attachment A – Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
- Attachment B — Testimony of Joseph Thorndike (Tax History Project)
- Attachment C – 1977 IRS memo
- Attachment D – Briefing materials
- Attachment F – Letter to Donald Trump
- Attachment G – Examination timeline
- Attachment H – Meeting agenda
- Joint Committee on Taxation, Report to the House Committee on Ways and Mean Chairman Richard Neal (Dec. 15, 2022) (attachments here)
The Decision to Release Trump's Tax Returns
Daniel Hemel (NYU), House Democrats' Report on Trump Taxes Highlights IRS's Failures—and Their Own:
In short, the IRS appears to have fallen down on the job. But Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee—who promised to carry out a thorough review of the IRS’s presidential audit program, yet instead made a hair-trigger decision to release Trump’s tax returns—fell down on the job as well. And as a consequence, a pox on both Trump and the IRS has become a pox on the House too.
- Bloomberg, House Votes to Require Release of Presidential Tax Returns
- Bloomberg, Trump's 'Complicated' Tax Records Expose 'Alarming' Hole in IRS
- Bloomberg, What Trump’s Tax Returns Say About His Finances and the IRS
- New York Post Editorial, Dems’ Absurd Trump Tax Goose Chase Sets a Precedent That Should Have YOU Worried
- New York Times, Despite Mandate, I.R.S. Delayed Auditing Trump in Office, House Panel Finds
- New York Times, I.R.S. Didn’t Audit Trump for 2 Years in Office, House Committee Says
- New York Times, I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, Raising Questions Over Delays for Trump
- New York Times, Release of Trump Tax Returns Could Herald New Era for Taxpayer Privacy
- New York Times, Trump Audit Shows Depths of I.R.S. Funding Woes
- New Yorker, The Rationale for Releasing Trump’s Taxes
- New Yorker, Trump’s Tax Returns Reflect a Broader American Problem
- Salon, The GOP Elite Wants to Brand Trump a Loser — The Humiliating Release of His Tax Returns Could Help
- TaxVox, We've Learned The IRS Was Slow To Audit Trump’s Tax Returns. We Need To Know Why
- Vanity Fair, That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming at the Mar-a-Lago Pool Boys Over the Release Of His Tax Returns and Possible Prison Time
- Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump’s 2015-2019 Tax Returns Remain Under Audit, While IRS Finished Two for Biden
- Wall Street Journal, House Panel Says It Found Fewer Trump Tax Documents Than Expected
- Wall Street Journal, IRS Audits of Trump Taxes Are Called Thinly Staffed and Deferential
- Wall Street Journal, IRS Hasn't Finished Auditing Trump's Taxes
- Wall Street Journal, IRS Launched Two Trump Tax Audits While He Was in Office, House Panel Says
- Wall Street Journal Editorial, The Democratic Trump Tax-Return Dump
- Washington Post, The Final Collapse of Trump’s Oldest Political Lie
- Washington Post, House Committee Votes to Make Public Trump’s Tax Returns
- Washington Post, How the Release of Trump’s Taxes Blows Up a Big GOP Myth
- Washington Post, I’ve Seen Trump’s Tax Returns and Now You Can, Too
- Washington Post Editorial, The Many Scandals Trump’s Tax Records Reveal
The Content of Trump's Tax Returns
- Bloomberg, Donald Trump’s Taxes Reveal Big Losses: What We Learned So Far, in Charts
- Bloomberg, Private Jet Costs, Sketchy Deductions Among Red Flags in Trump Taxes
- New York Times, Here Are the Key Numbers From Trump’s Tax Returns
- New York Times, Trump Paid $1.1 Million in Taxes During Presidency, but $0 in 2020, Report Shows
- New York Times, Trump’s Taxes: Red Flags, Big Losses and a Windfall From His Father
- Politico, Trump's Income Taxes Were Often Paltry, Newly Released Documents Show
- Wall Street Journal, Donald and Melania Trump Reported Negative Income In Four Years From 2015 Through 2020
- Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump’s Tax Returns: What They Show
- Wall Street Journal, House Panel Releases Overview of Donald Trump’s Tax Returns, Promises More Details
- Wall Street Journal, IRS Urged to Examine Donald Trump’s Loans to His Children
