Mnuchin suggested today that he will reject House Democrats’ subpoena for President Donald Trump’s tax returns

“An elector shall not vote for a candidate for President or Vice-President of the United States, unless the candidate had filed, or caused to be filed, the candidate’s federal income tax return”

...convening a hearing Thursday to examine legislative proposals and laws dictating the process to acquire the documents.

The Trump administration wants to drag an expected Democratic request for the president’s tax returns into a quagmire of arcane legal arguments.

Democrats will include a provision in their new bill that would require presidential nominees to disclose 10 years of tax returns shortly after they become the nominee. Vice presidents would also be required to disclose a decade of returns.

A nearly 100-year old statute allows the chairmen of Congress’ tax committees to look at anyone’s returns.

Trump is being sued by four plaintiffs who allege he is violating anti-corruption provisions in the Constitution, namely, its Foreign and Domestic Emoluments clauses.

That Trump was spared a single inquiry about his tax return, for which he had received a filing extension, is a testament to his highly effective burial of the issue.

In a party-line vote Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee rejected a resolution that would have directed the Treasury Department to turn over the tax returns of Mr. Trump and his many businesses.

“Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters,” he said. “Oh, at some point I'll release them. Maybe I'll release them after I'm finished because I'm very proud of them actually. I did a good job.”

The legislation ... would require the state to post online the state tax returns of anyone elected to federal or state office in a statewide election

Pence is joining President Donald Trump in breaking the Obama-era tradition of making their tax returns public shortly after they file them.

Democrats are hoping to squeeze the majority party so they can claim that GOP incumbents in competitive reelection fights are standing with a president who remains deeply unpopular.

“Well, would it surprise you to learn that the dishes you’ve all just partaken of contain morsels of my 1099-Bs from 1995 to 2015?”

“If he doesn’t release his returns, it is going to make it much more difficult to get tax reform done”

The IRS, however, has said that the audit does not prohibit Trump from releasing his returns.

“We need to see Trump’s tax returns as a matter of transparency”

There is a chance Trump will list his profits in his next federal financial disclosure, in May 2018, but the form doesn’t require it. The surest way to see what profits Trump is taking would be the release of his tax returns

“There’s a huge appetite for tax returns,” Spicer said

The bill was inspired by Trump, who refused to release his tax returns on the campaign trail and since entering office, breaking with years of election tradition.

Nothing in the two pages produced on Tuesday night suggested any ties with Russia. Nor did they provide much information about his businesses

The White House adds that it is ‘‘totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns’’ and is bashing the ‘‘dishonest media.’’

The vote was 229 to 185.

In accordance with the “We the People” Open Government Initiative protocol, a petition would be reviewed and met with an official response if signed by 100,000 people in 30 days.

Defying decades of precedent, Trump has refused to release his tax documents, which Democrats say could show whether his business empire poses any conflicts of interest

The 1924 law gives congressional committees that set tax policy the power to examine tax returns. It was used in 1974 when Congress looked at President Richard Nixon's returns

"I think we have to have an investigation by the FBI into his financial, personal and political connections to Russia, and we want to see his tax returns, so we can have truth in the relationship between Putin, whom he admires, and Donald Trump."

Conway said during the interview Sunday that the public knows Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules regarding the president's business empire.