DOJ Says IRS Is “Forever Barred” from Investigating Trump Family Tax Returns
The Justice Department memo was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is Trump’s former personal attorney.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he “may release” his current tax returns to the public after the IRS reached a settlement over a leak of his past tax records. The leaked returns from Trump’s first term “showed I pay a lot of tax,” he told the Washington Examiner. “I may even release my current…
The Justice Department memo was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is Trump’s former personal attorney.
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s alliesThe justice department quietly added a provision barring the IRS from auditing Donald Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, amending a widely criticized agreement that creates a secretive and loosely controlled $1.776bn fund to compensate allies of…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Tuesday that leaves the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “forever barred” from examining President Trump’s prior tax returns. The memo prohibits the IRS from pursuing claims against Trump, his family or his businesses, saying the agency “releases, waives, acquits” its pending action and is “forever barred…
The Internal Revenue Service is permanently barred from pursuing claims against President Trump or his company based on prior tax returns, part of a controversial settlement deal between the Justice Department and Mr. Trump.
Acting Attorney General Blanche signed an order Tuesday preventing the IRS from examining President Trump’s prior tax returns and barring the agency from pursuing pending claims.
Some lawmakers and legal experts say the department has violated federal law with its addendum to the settlement.
A newly expanded settlement bars the IRS from pursuing any pending investigations into Donald Trump's tax returns.