Former president Donald Trump is defending his use of accounting strategies to minimise his federal tax payments after the House Ways and Means Committee released six years of his personal and business returns.
Last week, committee members voted along party lines to release Mr Trump’s returns after redacting them to conceal sensitive data such as social security numbers and contact details. The decision was one of the last acts of the House’s tax-writing and regulation committee after four years of Democratic control, as the current Democratic majority’s ability to release the documents will lapse when the 118th Congress convenes on 3 January.
