民主党控制的众议院筹款委员会周五公开发布了与前总统有关的文件唐纳德·特朗普的涵盖2015年至2020年六年的纳税申报表。
这一举措是在委员会成员24票赞成16票反对在敏感信息如银行账号和社会保险号被编辑后，上周公布了这些文件。
特朗普长期以来一直努力保持其税务记录的私密性，打破了前任总统公开此类文件的先例。
特朗普周五发表声明，要求众议院委员会公开这些记录，同时声称这些记录“显示了他有多么自豪地成功”。
特朗普说:“民主党人不应该这样做，最高法院不应该批准它，这对这么多人来说将导致可怕的事情。”“美国的巨大鸿沟现在将变得更加严重。激进的左翼民主党人已经把一切都武器化了，但记住，那是一条危险的双行道!”
周五公布的数千页税务记录揭示了一些新信息，并证实了过去关于特朗普个人和商业财务的报道。
这些记录证实了此前的报道，即特朗普持有大量外国银行账户——包括在任期间——并且似乎至少对其中一个账户撒了谎。根据这些回报，特朗普在2015年、2016年和2017年在中国有一个银行账户——尽管他在2020年声称该账户在他竞选总统之前就被关闭了。“我甚至在竞选总统之前就关闭了它，更不用说成为总统了，”特朗普在2020年10月与乔·拜登的一次辩论中说。
根据申报表，特朗普还报告说，他在十几个国家有收入或纳税，包括英国、格鲁吉亚、卡塔尔、中国、墨西哥和阿拉伯联合酋长国。
特朗普和他的妻子梅拉尼娅也报告了多年来慢慢减少的慈善捐款。在他担任总统的第一年，两人申报了190万美元的慈善捐赠。2018年和2019年，他们每年捐赠大约50万美元，2020年，他们报告没有慈善捐赠。
委员会主席理查德.尼尔。上周二告诉记者，该委员会发现，在特朗普担任总统期间，没有对他的纳税申报进行持续审计，直到委员会提出要求，尽管美国国税局要求现任总统或副总统提交的纳税申报必须接受审计。
尼尔说，审计是在他要求退货后于2019年才开始的，并说对要求退货的审计从未完成。
尼尔说:“税务表格真的从来没有被审核过，只有我发了一封信，才引起了后视镜的回应。”。
委员会已经要求特朗普6年的回报财政部称这是对总统和副总统的国税局审计行为调查的一部分。
特朗普指责该委员会以虚假借口寻求他的税收，称调查只是出于政治动机的钓鱼探险。但该委员会表示，这些文件对于起草“公平税收管理立法，包括总统税收合规立法”至关重要
根据一份上周发布的摘要根据该委员会的数据，在特朗普竞选总统的第一年，即2015年，特朗普和他的妻子共报告了3170万美元的损失，并报告了641931美元的净税收。
据该委员会称，在2016年总统选举年期间，两人再次报告调整后总收入损失了3240万美元，仅缴纳了750美元的税款。在特朗普执政的第一年，这对夫妇报告损失了1290万美元，并再次缴纳了750美元的税款。
2018年，他们调整后的总收入上升了，他们带来了2430万美元，他们报告缴纳了999456美元的税款。2019年，两人申报收入440万美元，纳税133445美元。
2020年，他们报告损失了480万美元，特朗普支付了0美元的税款。
卡普林的税务专家梅丽莎·威利& Drysdale告诉ABC新闻，根据他的净运营损失量，他构建业务的方式在房地产行业并不罕见。
该委员会的最高共和党人、德克萨斯州众议员凯文·布雷迪(Kevin Brady)表示，民主党人通过公布特朗普的纳税申报单，“匆忙瞄准”特朗普是一个重大错误。
布雷迪在一份声明中说:“民主党人正在释放一种危险的新政治武器，这种武器远远超出了特朗普总统的范围，并危及每个美国人的隐私。”。
6 years of Trump tax documents released by House Ways and Means Committee
The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee on Friday publicly released documents related to former President Donald Trump's tax returns covering the six years from 2015 to 2020.
The move comes after committee members voted 24-16 last week to release the documents after sensitive information -- like bank account numbers and Social Security numbers -- had been redacted.
Trump has long fought to keep his tax records private, breaking precedent with previous presidents who made such documents public.
Trump released a statement Friday pushing back on the House committee for making the records public while also claiming they "show how proudly successful" he has been.
"The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it's going to lead to horrible things for so many people," Trump said. "The great USA divide will now grow far worse. The Radical Left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!"
The thousands of pages of tax records released Friday revealed some new information as well as confirmed past reporting about Trump's personal and business finances.
The records confirm previous reporting that Trump held a number of foreign bank accounts -- including while in office -- and appeared to have lied about at least one of them. According to the returns, Trump reported having a bank account in China in 2015, 2016 and 2017 -- despite having claimed in 2020 that the account was closed before he ran for president. "I closed it before I even ran for president, let alone became president," Trump said during one debate against Joe Biden in October 2020.
According to the returns, Trump also reported having income from or paying taxes to over a dozen foreign countries, including the United Kingdom, Georgia, Qatar, China, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump and his wife, Melania, also reported charitable donations that slowly decreased over the years. During his first year as president, the two reported making $1.9 million in charitable gifts. In 2018 and 2019, they donated roughly half a million dollars each year, and in 2020, they reported no charitable giving.
Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., told reporters last Tuesday that the committee found there was no ongoing audit of Trump's tax returns during his presidency until the committee requested them, despite an IRS requirement that tax returns filed by a sitting president or vice president are subject to audit.
Neal said the audit only began in 2019 after he requested the returns and said the audits of the requested returns were never completed.
"The tax forms were really never audited and only my sending a letter at one point prompted a rearview mirror response," Neal said.
The committee had requested six years' worth of Trump's returns from the Treasury Department as part of what it said was an investigation into IRS audit practices of presidents and vice presidents.
Trump has accused the committee of seeking his taxes under false pretenses, saying the probe is just a politically motivated fishing expedition. But the committee said the documents were critical for drafting "legislation on equitable tax administration, including legislation on the President's tax compliance."
According to a summary released last week by the committee, Trump and his wife together reported $31.7 million in losses and reported $641,931 in net taxes during the first year of Trump's presidential campaign, in 2015.
During the 2016 presidential election year, the two again reported losing $32.4 million in adjusted gross income and paid just $750 in taxes, according to the committee. During Trump's first year in office, the couple reported losing $12.9 million and again paid $750 in taxes.
In 2018, their adjusted gross income went up, with them bringing in $24.3 million, and they reported paying $999,456 in taxes. In 2019, the two reported making $4.4 million and paid $133,445 in taxes.
In 2020, they reported losing $4.8 million and Trump paid $0 in taxes.
Melissa Wiley, tax expert at Caplin & Drysdale, told ABC News that based on the volume of his net operating losses, the way he structured his businesses is not unusual in the real estate industry.
The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, has said Democrats made a major mistake in a "rush to target" Trump by releasing his tax returns.
"Ways and Means Democrats are unleashing a dangerous new political weapon that reaches far beyond President Trump, and jeopardizes the privacy of every American," Brady said in a statement.
