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Former President Donald Trump issued a statement in response to Democrats releasing his tax returns Friday, saying “it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people.” The House Ways and Means Committee successfully released the tax returns after a years-long legal battle to obtain them. Trump had filed an application in October to block the committee from reviewing his tax returns, but the Supreme Court ruled against Trump in November. “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people. The...

Joe Biden’s campaign wasted no time attempting to cash in on a bombshell report from The New York Times on Donald Trump’s federal income tax payments, which found the president paid no income taxes in 10 out of 15 years since 2000. A few hours after the Times released its findings, the Biden campaign’s fundraising website released new vinyl stickers that read, “I paid more income taxes than Donald Trump.” It also released an ad detailing the average income tax payments for elementary school teachers, firefighters, construction managers, and nurses. The ad ended with what Trump reportedly paid in 2017...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged Thursday that Congress will obtain -- and release -- President Trump's tax returns if Joe Biden wins the November election. "When we win this election, and we have a new president of the United States in January, and we have a new secretary of the treasury, and [Rep.] Richard Neal asks for the president's returns, then the world will see what the president has been hiding all of this time," Pelosi said during a news conference. Trump has refused to make his tax returns public, breaking a modern-day precedent set by other presidents over the...

President Donald Trump lost Monday in his effort to stop the release of his personal and corporate tax returns as part of a criminal investigation in New York. Trump immediately appealed the decision handed down in U.S. district court in lower Manhattan. In August, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. subpoenaed eight years of the president’s tax returns from account firm Mazars USA. The prosecutor is probing hush money payments made to two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, ahead of the 2016 election.

Full title: JUDICIAL WATCH SUES OVER CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES APPEARING ON PRIMARY BALLOT TO DISCLOSE TAX RETURNS (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four California voters to prevent the California secretary of state from implementing a new state law requiring all presidential candidates who wish to appear on California’s primary ballot to publicly disclose their personal tax returns from the past five years ( Jerry Griffin et al. v. Alex Padilla (No. 2:19-cv-01477). The suit alleges that the law unconstitutionally adds a new qualification for candidates for president....

Between 1803 and 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled 172 federal laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), in their effort to demonize President Trump, may inadvertently add a law written in 1924 to this list of doomed legislation. Absent a smoking gun from the Mueller report, the Trump resistance sees the next opportunity to demonize Trump via his tax returns.It is entirely plausible that IRC 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f), originally passed in response to the Teapot Dome Scandal, (a bribery scandal involving oil leases on...

The provisions in 26 U.S.C. S: 6103 protecting confidentiality of tax returns prohibited the Department of the Treasury from complying with a request by the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee for the President's tax returns. The text of section 6103(f), the statutory exception under which the request was made, does not require the Committee to state any purpose for its request. But Congress could not constitutionally confer upon the Committee the right to compel the Executive Branch to disclose confidential information without a legitimate legislative purpose. Under the facts and circumstances, the Secretary of the Treasury reasonably...

Full title: Hans von Spakovsky: NY Times publication of Trump tax information violates his legal right to confidentialityThe New York Times no doubt considers it quite a coup to have obtained and published President Trump’s tax return information from 1985 to 1994. But doing so violated Trump’s right under federal law to the confidentiality of his tax returns. The Times – which reported that Trump’s businesses lost $1.17 billion during the 10-year period – has no more right to Trump’s tax returns than it has to mine or those of any of you reading these words. Confidentiality, as the Ninth...

The New York Times posted a lengthy article on President Trump’s tax returns from the late 1990s on Tuesday.

Actualmente, el Gobierno Federal es inflexible en el cumplimiento de las leyes migratorias. La puntería está sobre los inmigrantes que poseen la ‘green card’. A medida que se acerca el martes 17 de abril, fecha límite para presentar la declaración de impuestos, los especialistas en el tema legal recomiendan cumplir con ese trámite obligatorio en este país, debido a que podrían perder su estatus legal y ser deportados si no cumplen con su deber tributario, algo que no todos los residentes permanentes saben. Según la Oficina de Ciudadanía y Servicios de Inmigración (USCIS) y el Servicio de Rentas Internas (IRS),...

Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate since Richard Nixon not to reveal his federal income tax return. Some Oregon Democrats want to try to make him the last. A bill introduced Monday in Salem would require candidates for president and vice president to give a copy of their most recent tax return to the Oregon Secretary of State with written permission that the document can be made public. Alternatively, the candidate could fill out Oregon’s standard income disclosure form for public officials. The requirement would apply to candidates on primary and general election ballots and those wishing to be...

A federal judge on Friday said that the court could not compel the IRS to turn over President Trump’s tax returns. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) launched a suit against the IRS earlier this year after the agency refused to hand over the documents as part of an open-records request. Through the Freedom of Information Act, EPIC had sought Trump’s personal tax returns from 2010 to the present day and any documents that may reveal financial relationships with the Russian government or Russian businesses. However, personal tax forms are confidential. They can only be obtained if Trump himself gave...

The Democrats seem to not want to relent on the desire to see President Trump’s tax returns. They will tell you it is all about good government or that it is tradition. We need open government. They think Mr. Trump is hiding something. I am advising him now he should just come out and say he isn’t turning them over – deal with it. Let me explain why. The biggest reason is that his tax returns are so complex that very few people could ever understand them. They are most likely littered with hundreds of entities that flow through to...

The MSNBC host's "breaking story" releasing Trump's tax return on air breaks apart MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow went on Twitter Tuesday (March 14th) to hype her “breaking story”: “We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously).” This no doubt sent the Left into a state of delirium. Then, Maddow followed up with another tweet, lowering expectations slightly: “What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC.” That was not quite accurate either. What Maddow finally revealed on her show, after all of her self-promotion, were only two leaked pages from President...

On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert did a great imitation of Maddow's big Trump 2005 tax expose where she wasted an hour of her audience's time and produced nothing.(video at link)

Wait. Look at that closer. What does it say on the second page there? “Client copy”? Yes. Client copy. So. Either Donald Trump leaked this himself, or someone with a “client copy” did. Given that there appears to be nothing embarrassing about the return whatsoever, and the world is laughing at Maddow, my money’s on Trump being the leaker. It’s probably the most favorable return for his narrative in existence. So: he leaks it, hoping this will end the controversy for good — and change the subject from all this CBO/TrumpCare talk.

The scoreboard on President Trump and mainstream media haters: Trump, 1, MSM, big fat zero! The Swan Song is blaring for Rachel Maddow, reigning Queen of MSNBC. Wretched Rachel set her sights on bringing the Donald down through the release of his tax returns. Instead, she ended up sinking her own leaky boat.

What a disgusting person! Hillary Clinton told Americans during the first presidential debate in September 2016 that Donald Trump did not pay taxes. For one, she had no way of legally obtaining this information. And, two, it was a complete lie like so many other things she said. Hillary Clinton: First, maybe he’s not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he’s not as charitable as he claims to be. Or maybe he doesn’t want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he’ paid nothing in federal taxes.

Despite her assertion that there's a 1st Amendment protection given the media to publish the tax returns of someone they deem worthy of scrutiny, Rachel Maddow is woefully ignorant. Just because she plays a journalist on television doesn't make her one. The law is clear.

Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax return on her campaign website on Friday. The campaign also released 10 years worth of returns for running mate Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton. The records show that during the past 10 years, Kaine and Holton paid a combined effective tax rate (described as federal, state and local taxes) ranging from 18.7 percent in 2009 – Kaine’s final full year as governor – to 29.1 percent in 2011. For the couple’s most recent return, for 2015, they paid a combined effective tax rate of 25.6 percent. For...