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Donald Trump, President of the United States from January 2017 to January 2021, has controversially refused to release his tax returns since the 2015–2016 campaign for the presidency at the 2016 election. Though Trump promised to release the returns during his campaign, he repeatedly refused to release his tax return information throughout his presidency, the first major-party U.S. presidential candidate or president since 1976 to do so. Trump had repeatedly and falsely claimed that he could not release the returns while they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). It is IRS policy, but not law, to annually audit tax returns of presidents and vice presidents.After the 2018 mid-term elections, Democrats gained a majority in the House of Representatives and its committees, a number of which sought information on Trump's business and personal dealings, including Trump's tax returns, as part of their investigations. At about the same time, the Manhattan District Attorney's office commenced its own investigations involving Trump's business and personal dealings and campaign financing and expenditures. Trump refused to cooperate with all requests for information, and sought to prevent others from providing such information. In May 2019, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed the IRS for six years of Trump's returns. The Trump administration refused to comply, leading to a lawsuit. On July 30, 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said the IRS must provide the tax returns to the committee. Trump's legal team sued, but the lawsuit was dismissed. On November 30, 2022, a week after Trump lost an appeal to the Supreme Court, the committee received the tax returns. Four weeks later, the committee voted 24–16 along party lines to release the returns to the public.Separately, the U.S. House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm for tax records and other records as part of an investigation into Trump's conduct, which Trump sued to block. The District of Columbia's federal district court and court of appeals upheld the validity of the subpoenas. In the Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the lower courts should further assess the congressional subpoena.In late August 2019, a New York state grand jury subpoenaed Trump for 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 and potential tax fraud. Trump refused to comply, contending that a sitting president enjoys "absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind". 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; this ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in November 2019. Trump appealed the decision 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. After Trump made a narrower argument to the Second Circuit, the court again ruled against him in October 2020. Trump again appealed to the Supreme Court, which was rejected in February 2021, allowing the tax records to be released to prosecutors and a grand jury. The same month, the accounting firm Mazars provided the Manhattan District Attorney with Trump's tax returns from 2011 to mid-2019.In response to Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, California enacted legislation to require presidential candidates to release tax returns to be allowed on the primary election ballot. The California Supreme Court later found this law to violate the state's constitution. Separately, in New York, a state law was passed which would permit the state tax officials to release state tax returns to specific congressional committees upon request for legitimate purposes.