Headline Roundup • April 6th, 2019
Trump's Lawyer Calls for IRS to Not Overturn Tax Returns Until Justice Department Weighs in
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Wall Street Journal (News)
A lawyer for President Trump said that House Democratsâ request for the presidentâs tax returns flouts constitutional constraints and should be rejected by the Internal Revenue Service.
In a letter to the Treasury Departmentâs top lawyer, attorney William Consovoy began laying out a legal case that the Trump administration could use to refuse the congressional request. Mr. Consovoy argued there are limits to a 1924 law that requires the IRS to turn over any tax returns sought by Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.), chairman of the Houseâs tax-writing committee.
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Washington Post
An attorney for President Trump on Friday told the Treasury Department it should not turn over the presidentâs tax returns until it receives a legal opinion from the Justice Department, calling on Treasury to deny Democratsâ demands for six years of the presidentâs records.
William S. Consovoy, the attorney, attacked the request from Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, as a âgross abuse of power,â arguing that it risks encroaching on taxpayersâ privacy.
Consovoyâs letter is one of the early moves in what...
A lawyer for President Trump said in a letter Friday that Democratic efforts to get the IRS to turn over the presidentâs tax returns are an attempt to harass a political opponent and that it would set a âdangerous precedentâ for the agency to turn them over.
âFor good reason, it would be a gross abuse of power for the majority to use tax returns as a weapon to attack, harass, and intimidate their political opponents. Once this Pandoraâs box is opened, the ensuing tit-for-tat will do lasting damage to...
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