IRS failed to conduct timely mandatory audits of Trump’s taxes while president

Internal Revenue Service only began audit after prompting from Congress in 2019, House ways and means committee indicates

US tax authorities failed to audit Donald Trump for two years while he was in the White House, Democratic lawmakers said, despite a program that makes tax review of sitting presidents compulsory.

The claim, in a report issued by Democrats on the House ways and means committee voting to release six years of Trump's tax returns, raises questions over statements made by Trump and members of his administration that he could not release his tax returns, a convention for aspiring and sitting presidents, because he was undergoing an Internal Revenue Service audit.