In Canada we do not ask our PM to revveal his/her previous income tax records
We do not have any reason to ask. If he/her volunteers that is okay but we do not demand. All we ask is his/her personal life does not colour his/her decisions while in gov't elected positions. Even a friendship with certain private entities is frowned upon and we did have a mini scandal over such an issue
What is private, is private. We assume that any illegal income or other wise, will be discovered or maybe not. The same as any citizen.
You seem to have a fixation on income tax records.
Why???
If your congress can demand income tax records, where does it end???
How many yrs??? What kind of records. Business records of property bought or sold. How many yrs prior?? Retirement funds, net worth statements, yrly equity statements
Yee Gaads
You people are too dam nosy.
Do you ask the same of your elected congress???
Unelected people wanting gov't jobs. Contractors working for the gov't. Your Fed chair person or the cast of characters within the Fed
The list is endless
If you have genuine questions, then ask them before voting. Decide if it sways your decision regarding what ever info you know to be true or think may or may not be true. Think before you vote
You did the best you could. You made a decision.
Then forever hold your questions
That should be a law of your country given how your congress and others, abuse your present system
The only reason for this is to try to dig up dirt on President Trump.
I disagree MM. Anyone who understands tax returns knows that Trump's will not contain any dirt. They've been prepared by the best MBA's and Tax Attorney's the world has to offer. They've also been through the IRS. They will be scrubbed even if there are questionable financial transactions. Not to mention, his annual tax returns likely fill a room full of file cabinets if you take all the corporations into account.
No, what they are hoping is to find are examples like Romney's dancing horse where they can misrepresent/misinterpret and somehow paint a negative picture.
There is no obligation for anyone to surrender their tax returns.
You disagree Tim but your explanation agrees.
By dirt, I'm not referring to blatant violations of the tax code only, which would seem to be unlikely but loads of things that stand out, where he is doing just like you described and for Americans that cannot relate to his personal finances, they can be sucked into a spinning of his actions as abusing the system so that he doesn't pay his fair share........or whatever creative "dirt" narrative they come up with.
One thing for sure, this WILL happen if they get his tax records.
The assumption now is that he must be hiding something to not release them.\
For sure he is. Not something criminal but he knows if the other side gets ahold of his taxes, all the things that they can use for a negative spin.
Maybe a dozen things considering the complexity.
His bankruptcies were not a pretty thing for instance but more recently, there is probably more than that. For sure there is or we would have seen his taxes.