Dumb question. Can the IRS be subpoenaed to get dRump's taxes?

[maveric]

Asking for a friend.

[vsrazdem]

1. Yes and they can be found in contemp of congress and jailed.

[briv1016]

8. No one has ever gone to jail for contempt of congress.

[elleng]

2. Not exactly, surely not simple.

The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The government agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States.

[maveric]

3. But it is possible?

They’ve got it all.

[OnDoutside]

4. That's the effect of Neal's latest letter. He'll be defying Congress

if he doesn't meet the April 23rd deadline, and can go to jail for that.

[maveric]

5. My friend thanks you.

[bluestarone]

6. And possible pardon?

Probably be the first pardon of tRUMP.

[OnDoutside]

7. Rettig would be a fool to go down that line. That would mean he

committed a crime, and his career is over....all for a traitor who will burn him.

[bluestarone]

9. I agree BUT

These are strange people. The Senate sure as fuck won't help!

[OnDoutside]

11. I don't see where the Senate can block a House committee ?

Under Section 6103 of our tax code, Treasury officials “shall” turn over the tax returns “upon written request” of the chair of either congressional tax committee or the federal employee who runs Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. No request has ever been refused, a host of former congressional tax aides tell me.

There is, however, a law requiring every federal “employee” who touches the tax system to do their duty or be removed from office.

The crystal-clear language of this law applies to Trump, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Mnuchin and Rettig, federal employees all.

The law says all of them "shall" be removed from office if they fail to comply with the request from Representative Richard Neal, the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee.

There are no qualifiers in Section 6103 that shield Trump from delivering, in confidence, his tax returns to Congress. No wiggle room at all.

Another provision in our tax code, Section 7214(a), provides that “Any officer or employee of the United States acting in connection with any revenue law of the United States… who with intent to defeat the application of any provision of this title fails to perform any of the duties of his office or employment… shall be dismissed from office or discharged from employment and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both.”

All that Neal must do is make a request in writing that falls within the committee’s tax law and IRS oversight duties. Neal’s carefully articulated reasoning and requests for specific tax returns and related tax information in his April 3 letter easily meets that standard.

Congress earlier applied this law to Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace after a second audit of his returns showed he was a major league tax cheat. Nixon fabricated deductions worth more than $3.4 million in today’s money. Nixon got off with a pardon, while his tax lawyer went to prison.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-the-law-that-requires-steven-mnuchin-to-turn-over-trumps-taxes-or-lose-his-office-and-go-to-prison

[Sgent]

10. The Internal Revenue Code

also requires them to release any requested tax return to the Chairman of the House and Senate committee that has primary jurisdiction. That said, courts have construed other laws like these (and subpoenas) to requiring a legislative purpose.

[Igel]

12. Which is reasonable.

Otherwise at some point one of those authorized to requisition the returns would requisition a prospective future in-law's, a son's business rival's, or a neighbor's.

The laws have a purpose.