Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally.Photo: Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty
Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement: “This a major failure of the IRS under the prior administration and certainly not what we had hoped to find.”
“Numerous investigative reports have revealed that the former President, through the complex arrangements of his personal and business finances, has engaged in aggressive tax strategies and decades-long tax avoidance schemes,” the report says.
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Trump has long worked to shield his taxes from public view, and has often maintained that he was under audit and therefore unable to release the documents.
The report details how, “both as a candidate and once elected,” Trump frequently claimed he was being audited, once saying, “Why is it that every single year, I’m audited, whereas other people that are very rich, people are never audited.”
Trump was the first president since Richard Nixon to not release his tax returns.
And while Trump himself did not face expected audits, some of his harshest critics did.
Ultimately, Comey and his wife were found to have overpaid their federal income tax and were refunded $347.
source: people.com
