Their publication is an additional setback for the former tenant of the White House. The tax returns of former President Donald Trump were made public on Friday, December 30, by an American parliamentary committee, after a long legal battle.
Donald Trump, who has embarked on a new race for the White House for 2024, had not made his statements known to the tax authorities, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, raising many questions about their content .
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee had voted in favor of the publication of the billionaire’s six years of income from 2015 to 2020. This group of elected officials had been demanding for three years the documents transmitted to the tax authorities by the billionaire between these years, this which he refused. The Supreme Court finally ruled in their favor at the end of November.
Lack of transparency
Donald Trump strongly denounced this decision in a press release to CBS on Friday, assuring however that these statements “only show once more [sa] success “.
The lack of transparency of Donald Trump, who has made his wealth a campaign argument, has fueled speculation for years about the extent of his fortune or potential conflicts of interest.
The former president is already the subject of a myriad of investigations into the management of his archives, as well as his financial affairs in New York. His family business, the Trump Organization, was found guilty in early December of financial and tax fraud after a trial in New York where the former Republican president was not tried.
A separate parliamentary report on the US tax authorities also showed that the latter had not done what it was supposed to do for almost all of Donald Trump’s mandate. “It is a major failure of the American tax authorities”had denounced the head of the parliamentary committee in charge of the file, the elected Democrat Richard Neal.