In 2019, the Budget Committee (Committee on Ways and Means) of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives submitted a request to see tax documents for incumbent President Donald Trump and his companies. Trump rejected the request, calling it politically motivated.
Local time, the Washington District Federal Court of Appeals, in its Tuesday ruling, found the commission’s request to be well-founded and part of its legislative work, Reuters writes.
According to the judiciary, the request for the documents does not violate the constitutional principle of the separation of powers, and the administration’s agreement led by President Joe Biden to allow Congress, the legislature, to receive the former president’s tax returns, does not violate Donald Trump’s right to free speech.
The House Budget Committee expects to receive the required tax documents immediately. At the same time, the decision of the Court of Appeal suspends the validity of the ruling for 7 days To Donald Trump You have the opportunity to object to the decision.
The former president can go directly to the Supreme Court and has the option to seek another hearing in the Washington District Court.
The House Budget Committee first tried in 2019 to access the then-in-office president’s tax returns, and then in 2021 announced another request for documents between 2015 and 2020, claiming that it was the president who was no longer in office, which was Subject to the same rules as for any citizen – write according to MTI index.
The Washington court ruling on the tax return case came a day after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Florida home, where – according to unconfirmed reports – they were still searching for documents from his presidency.
