IRS is reportedly installing a safe to house the tax returns of President Trump
The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently revealed that the agency is building a safe to house the tax returns of President Trump.
John Koskinen told Politico Magazine that the completed forms are now in a locked cabinet inside a locked room with very limited access, as presidents’ returns generally are.
“We’re in the process of turning that cabinet into a safe,” he also revealed.
When asked if he’d ever seen Trump’s tax documents, Koskinen replied, “I had no authority to look at anybody’s returns.”
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“Nobody can, unless you’re authorized for the process of examination,” he further noted. “I couldn’t look at my own return.”
Trump is the first president in decades to not share his annual filing, at least in part, with the American people, notes CNN.
Though he repeatedly said during his campaign that he would, he has since asserted that he is unable to do so due to an audit, which, technically, does not preclude him from sharing the information.
Trump has also suggested he may give the public a look at the documents once he’s out of office.
