The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 22 passed a bill that would require the U.S. government to make a president’s tax documents public.
H.R. 9640 (pdf), or the Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022, was approved in a 222–201 vote, with five Republicans joining all Democrats in voting yes. Eight members missed the vote.
The bill would compel the IRS to examine each tax return filed by a president and later post the actual tax documents online for all to see.
Democrats said the legislation was needed because, after recently obtaining former President Donald Trump’s tax documents, they discovered the IRS only audited one year of Trump’s returns while he was in office….