Their publication is a further setback for the former White House tenant. Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were made public on Friday 30 December by a US parliamentary committee after a long legal battle.
Donald Trump, who has embarked on a new race for the White House for 2024, had not disclosed his statements to the tax authorities, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, raising many questions about their content.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted in favor of publishing the billionaire’s six years of income from 2015 to 2020. This group of elected officials had been asking for the documents sent to the tax authorities by the billionaire between these years for three years, which they refused. The Supreme Court finally ruled in their favor in late November.
Lack of transparency
Donald Trump strongly denounced this decision in a press release on CBS on Friday, however, assuring these statements “shows just once more [sa] success “.
Donald Trump’s lack of transparency, who has made his wealth an electoral argument, has fueled speculation for years about the size of his fortune or potential conflicts of interest.
The former president is already the subject of a myriad of inquiries into his handling of his archives, as well as his financial dealings in New York. His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty in early December of financial and tax fraud after a trial in New York in which the former Republican president did not go to trial.
A separate parliamentary report on the US tax authorities also showed that they had not done what they should have done for most of Donald Trump’s tenure. ‘It’s a major failure of the US taxman’had denounced the head of the parliamentary committee in charge of the file, the elected Democrat Richard Neal.
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