This commission voted, at 24 votes for and 16 against, in favor of the publication of tax sheets of the billionaire between 2015 and 2020.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
A commission of the House of Representatives, sitting in particular on tax affairs and with a majority of democrat until the installation of the new republican majority in early January, voted on Tuesday December 20 at 24 votes against in favor of The publication of the six years of Donald Trump tax sheets between 2015 and 2020. The former republican president has been leading a legal battle for several years to keep them private.
A group of elected officials has been demanding for three years the documents sent to the taxman by the billionaire between these years, which he refused. The Supreme Court had finally proved them right at the end of November.
Donald Trump, who embarked on a new race for the White House for 2024, has never made his tax declarations known, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, arousing many questions on their content.
financial and tax fraud
The lack of transparency of the billionaire, which has made its wealth a campaign argument, has fueled speculation for years on the extent of its fortune or on potential conflicts of interest.
His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty in early December of financial and tax fraud after a trial in New York.
Kevin Brady, elected republican of the House of Representatives Commission, had alerted before the vote that a possible publication “would open the door” to what parliamentarians “have almost unlimited powers to attack their Political enemies by obtaining and making their private tax declarations public “.
“Even if the Democrats assure that it is not political”, continued a press release from the Republican elected officials, “their eagerness to publish the documents with an accelerated, botched process, shows that their motivations are very political”.
The exact date of publication was not yet known immediately after the vote.