Tell Congress: Pass Law Requiring Release and Audits of Presidential Tax Returns

Tell Congress: Pass Law Requiring Release and Audits of Presidential Tax Returns

The preposterous “settlement” in Donald Trump’s bogus lawsuit against his own IRS includes a clause by which the federal government is “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing” Trump, his children and other family members, and their numerous businesses over any existing issues related to their tax returns.

This is a naked ploy to assure the Trumps that neither they nor their assorted businesses will ever be audited by the IRS for any wrongs they may have already committed.


To Every Member of Congress

We call on Congress to pass legislation mandating the following: Candidates for president must release every tax return they filed over the previous 10 years. Presidents must release their returns each year they are in office, and those returns must undergo a thorough, independent audit by the IRS. Former presidents must release their returns for the first five years after leaving office, and those returns must also be audited. This law should apply to all currently living presidents and all future presidents. And it should include language that explicitly prevents any attempt to in any way disregard, undermine, or overturn it by anyone in the Executive Branch or by the Supreme Court.

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