Mnuchin formally rejects Dem request for Trump's tax returns

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Mnuchin formally rejects Dem request for Trump's tax returns
By Naomi Jagoda - 05/06/19 05:39 PM EDT

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday formally rejected Democrats’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, saying it “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.”

“I am informing you now that the Department may not lawfully fulfill the Committee’s request,” Mnuchin said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.).

Neal first made the request for six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns on April 3. He made the request under a portion of Section 6103 of the federal tax code, which states that the Treasury Secretary “shall furnish” tax returns requested by the chairmen of Congress’s tax committees.

Mnuchin missed Neal’s initial deadline of April 10, saying that Treasury needed more time and was reviewing the request with the Department of Justice. Neal then set a second deadline of April 23, which Mnuchin also missed, saying that he expected Treasury to make a final decision by May 6.

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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/442364-mnuchin-formally-rejects-dem-request-for-trumps-tax-returns

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Right_in_Virginia]

Key Points

*  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday said he will not allow President Donald Trump’s tax returns to be released to Congress.

*  In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Mnuchin said that after conferring with the Justice Department, he has determined that the request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.”

*  House Democrats had hoped to obtain six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/mnuchin-says-he-wont-release-trumps-tax-returns-says-it-lacks-legitimate-legislative-purpose.html

[libertybele]

The response is more than adequate.   The left is never going to quit with their bat crap crazy investigations and demands until they obtain a full majority. 

[Jazzhead]

 Protecting the confidentiality of a taxpayer's return against poaching by political jackals is a fight worth having.