NY passes bill allowing Congress to request Trump's tax returns

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Gov. Cuomo expected to sign legislation

By: Evan Simko-Bednarski and Sonia Moghe, CNN
Posted: May 22, 2019 12:24 PM MDT
Updated: May 22, 2019 02:34 PM MDT

(CNN) - Democrats in New York state passed a pair of bills Wednesday that would allow Congress to get hold of President Donald Trump's state tax returns amid an escalating fight with top administration officials over access to the President's federal returns.

The main legislation, which passed the state assembly 84 to 53, would require the state's tax commissioner to provide New York state tax returns to Congress upon request from the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, or the Joint Committee on Taxation. A second bill also passed Wednesday restricts requests to elected officials only and mandates the removal of any federal tax information that might appear on state returns.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is expected to sign the legislation.

New York Democrats have positioned the legislation as a way to hold the President accountable, despite his refusal to follow presidential precedent by releasing his federal returns. Trump still holds New York residency and his businesses are mostly headquartered there ...

https://www.krdo.com/news/politics/new-york-passes-bill-allowing-congress-to-request-trumps-tax-returns/1080090038

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1. NY legislature approves bill giving Congress access to Trump's state tax records

By Jeff Stein
May 22 at 1:51 PM

New York state’s legislature on Wednesday approved a bill to allow the state to give Congress President Trump’s state tax returns, which could allow U.S. House members to review portions of the president’s financial records ...

It’s unclear whether House Democrats will request the state records, after a spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee said the state documents may not be relevant to the committee’s investigation. The records would have to be requested by the committee for them to be turned over. Their disclosure by state officials could also be challenged in court ...

“The significance here is now that Ways and Means has a quicker route to some important information about Trump’s tax returns,” said Daniel Hemel, an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago. “But they still have to take it" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/22/new-york-legislature-approves-bill-giving-congress-access-trumps-state-tax-records/?utm_term=.81265677b8bf