A draft confidential memo from the Internal Revenue Service last fall determined that tax returns must be surrendered to Congress unless the president opts to invoke executive privilege, The Washington Post reports
The move comes as President Donald Trump steadfastly refuses to hand over his tax returns to the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin flouted a subpoena from committee Chairman Richard Neal for Trump's tax returns last Friday, arguing that he is"not authorized to disclose the requested returns and return information" for a request that"lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.
to state a reason for the request." The"only basis the agency's refusal to comply with a committee's subpoena would be the invocation of the doctrine of executive privilege," the memo states, per the paper.Read MoreThe IRS told the Post that the memo was drafted last fall by a lawyer at the Office of Chief Counsel and did not convey the agency's"official position.
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