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Democratic-controlled committee obtained the returns last month
as part of an investigation into Trump's taxes, after a lengthy
court battle that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in
the committee's favor.
The committee released a report into its findings last week,
which said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) broke its own
rules by not auditing Trump for three of the four years of his
presidency.
The documents to be released on Friday are expected to include
Trump's tax returns filed between 2015 and 2021, the years he
ran for and served as president.
A spokesperson for Trump declined to comment.
Trump's tax returns were not released alongside last week's
report because they contained sensitive information that had to
be redacted before publication, committee members said.
Democrats on the committee said making the returns public was
necessary to understanding the context of its report, which also
included legislation that would mandate the IRS to audit
presidents.
Trump was the first presidential candidate in decades not to
release his tax returns during either of his campaigns for
president.
Democrats on the committee had only a few weeks to decide how to
handle the returns once they got them, before Republicans retake
control of the U.S. House in January after winning a narrow
margin of victory in November's midterm elections.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton in Vancouver; Editing by Leslie
Adler and Howard Goller)
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