Ways & Means wants Trump tax returns

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., on Wednesday evening said he had filed a formal request with the Treasury Department for [President Trump's tax returns].

It’s just the opening salvo in what’s sure to be a prolonged battle with the administration to see returns the president has refused to release.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said at a Ways and Means hearing last month that he would protect the president’s privacy if members of Congress tried to request his tax returns.

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Ways and Means is one of three congressional committees that has the authority to seek to obtain the president's returns. The other two panels that have the legal ability to request an individual's tax returns are the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

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Shouldn't Jerry Nadler request them, since the Judiciary Committee is responsible for impeachment investigations?

In early March, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told reporters if House Democrats were to request Trump’s tax returns, he expects his committee would do the same, but said that they’d remain private required by law. “We will — if they get them we’ll just ask for them, and I think under our rules or under the law we can get them as long as we guarantee security,” he said.

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As the committee's chairman, Neal has the power to send a written request to the IRS to provide the information. If the Treasury Department were to deny it, House Democrats will have to decide whether to pursue the tax returns through a legal route. If they are obtained, Neal would then have to designate the panel’s members as “agents” to read the returns. They would then have to vote to make the documents public and report them to the full House.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.