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"Prior to and during his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to release his tax returns,[2][3][4] but then reneged on his pledge to do so.[5] Trump became the first major-party presidential nominee and president since 1976 to refuse to release his tax returns to the public.[6][7] Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed he cannot make his returns public while they are under audit.[8][9][10] Trump has engaged in a lengthy legal battle to keep his tax returns secret.[1] In May 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed the IRS for six years of Trump's returns,[11] with which the Trump administration refused to comply,[12][13][14][15] leading to a lawsuit to enforce the subpoena.[16][17] Separately, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm for tax records and other records as part of an investigation into Trump's conduct,[18] which Trump sued to block. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the validity of the subpoenas.[19][20][21]
In late August 2019, a New York state grand jury issued a subpoena to Trump seeking eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, as part of an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, including a hush-money payment made during the 2016 presidential election campaign[22][23] and potential tax fraud.[24] Trump refused to comply,[22][25] contending that a sitting president enjoys "absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind."[23] In October 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled against Trump and ordered him to comply with the subpoena;[23][26] this ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in November 2019.[27][28] Trump appealed the decisions against him to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2020, in Trump v. Vance, the Court rejected Trump's broadest claims, holding that the president lacks absolute immunity from state criminal subpoenas, and ruling that the subpoena must be further examined for validity by the lower courts. In a separate decision in Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, the Court ruled that the lower courts should further assess the congressional subpoena.["
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