Donald Trump's Tax Returns Get Their Day in the DC Circuit

Well, not the returns themselves. Because Trump hasn't released them. But there is a public-records case, set for argument Thursday in the D.C. Circuit, that seeks to force the IRS to disclose the records.

By Mike Scarcella, Nat’l L.J., Sept. 12, 2018

Donald Trump proclaimed for months on the campaign trail that he could not release his tax returns because they were being audited by the IRS. He’d let everyone see them, he vowed, after the audit. “Absolutely,” he said at one of the presidential debates.

Those secret tax returns—they still have not been released—are the centerpiece of a case being argued Thursday in a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court. A panel of judges will decide whether the Internal Revenue Service can be forced to publicly release Trump’s tax returns through the federal Freedom of Information Act.

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