. The legislation would apply to personal income tax returns, as well as business taxes paid in New York.An earlier version of the proposal passed the state Senate two weeks ago that would have allowed congressional committees to get any New Yorker’s returns, regardless of whether they held public office. Lawmakers later narrowed the legislation to address concerns that it went too far, prompting the Senate to hold a second vote on the new language Wednesday.
The proposed changes to state law were made amid a battle going on in Washington over Trump’s federal returns. Much of the information on Trump’s state returns would mirror the information included on a federal return, giving the Democrats a potential end-run around the IRS, if they wished to take it.
Democrats are seeking six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns to aid a committee investigation into whether the IRS is doing its job properly to audit a sitting president and whether the law governing such audits needs to be strengthened.If Congress does request and obtain Trump’s state tax returns, that doesn’t mean the public gets to see them. Under federal law, the confidential information in the returns is supposed to be for the committee’s eyes only.
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