A deadline for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to turn President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to a congressional tax oversight committee expired on Tuesday without lawmakers receiving the documents, a committee aide said.
The outcome, which was widely expected, could prompt Democrats who control the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to subpoena the documents, as an opening salvo in what many expect to be a lengthy court battle that might have to be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would hear oral arguments on May 14 in a lawsuit brought by Trump seeking to block a congressional subpoena for information about eight years of Trump’s personal and business finances.
Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, had faced an April 29 deadline for complying with the demand from the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
