Mnuchin Says Trump Won’t Publish Returns As Trump Starts Tax Reform Push

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By Daniel J. Solomon April 26, 2017

As the White House presses a plan to lower individual and corporate taxes, President Trump still will not be releasing his own tax returns – a departure from decades of presidential practice.

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“The president has no intention, the president has released plenty of information, and I think has given more financial disclosure than anyone else,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, one of the architects of the tax plan, said Wednesday at a press conference.

Trump has released one tax return from more than a decade ago, and a slew of financial disclosure papers that provide less complete information than filings with the Internal Revenue Service. It has been a norm for candidates and holders of high office to release their tax returns since the Watergate scandal.

Democrats have balked at the White House and Mnuchin’s tax plans, and have refused to even entertain discussing them until the president releases his tax records.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon_

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Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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