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On Tuesday a powerful congressional committee voted to publicly release Donald Trump’s tax returns. The Democratic-controlled House ways and means committee voted to release the documents after several hours of debate.
Mr Trump has gone to considerable lengths over a number of years to prevent his tax returns becoming fully publicly available.
However, the New York Times has previously released sections of the former President’s returns.
They showed how the New York real estate mogul had suffered serious losses and engaged in extensive tax avoidance.
Tuesday’s decision comes after a long battle that resulted in the Supreme Court giving permission for the treasury department to send the returns to Congress last month.
The committee has received six years of Mr Trump’s tax returns as well as some related to his businesses.
During a 2016 Presidential debate the billionaire bragged that he was “smart” as he paid no Federal tax.
He also later claimed that he wouldn’t personally benefit from the 2017 tax cuts he signed into law that favoured the very wealthy.
However, the lack of publicly available tax returns meant that Americans effectively had to take the former Apprentice star for his word.
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