Hi there everyone it's Vorkark in the east it took years and one court ruling after another

appeal upon appeal and even a trip to the United States Supreme Court but today the American

public finally has its hands on something Donald Trump has so doggedly sought to conceal

his tax return six years worth and an unprecedented window into his financial picture.

This public release which among other things shows that Donald Trump paid relatively little

in taxes in the years before and during his presidency is the end product of an effort

undertaken by the Houseways and Means Committee.

After securing the returns which cover the years 2015 through 2020 that panel voted

long party lines to hand redacted versions of the returns over to the public before we

get into what these thousands of pages reveal in a way those of us who are not accountants

can understand it's worth noting how the committee got its hands on these returns in the first

place it's the end result of its investigation into an IRS policy that mandates audits of returns

filed by presidents and vice presidents from NBC's reporting on this part of the story quote

the committee found that the IRS had largely not followed its own internal requirements

beginning to examine Trump's returns only after the House panel inquired about the process

just one year of Trump's returns was officially selected for the mandatory review while he

was in office and that audit of Trump's 2016 taxes was not complete by the time he left

the White House according to the report.

Now in addition to new information on his income and other financial figures there are

number of new revelations for instance despite repeated boasts having to do with charitable donations

Trump reported zero dollars of charitable giving in 2020 he also maintained foreign bank accounts

while he was the president of the United States predictably Trump spent his day throwing a

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