-- A legal memo prepared by the IRS says tax returns must be turned over to Congress if requested, exposing disagreement within the Treasury Department, which has refused to comply with a subpoena for President Donald Trump’s returns, The Washington Post reported.
A Treasury spokesman said that no one in the agency’s leadership had seen the IRS’ memo and reiterated that the decision to withhold Trump’s financial records was based on advice from the Justice Department. The memo was prepared last fall, the Post reported, when Democrats were readying their request for six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns. The request is based on a 1924 law that says the Treasury Department “shall” turn over any individual’s tax returns to Congress if requested by those congressional chairmen.
But U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, in a related ruling involving the Trump administration’s efforts to block a different committee from seeing the records of the president’s accounting firm, Mazars LLC, said it was not the place of either the judicial branch or the executive branch to question Congress’s stated legislative purpose.
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Not going to happen
The same IRS that President Obama weaponized to attack Tea Party groups? Wow, he corrupted everything he touched.
Only should happen if Congress shows probable cause. Oversight doesn't mean obstruction.
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