Former President Donald Trump‘s IRS tax returns are expected to be provided to the House Ways and Means Committee in a week after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Trump’s bid to delay the release.

If Trump appeals, the Supreme Court might still get involved.

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After the full appeals court denied Trump’s request for them to reconsider an earlier ruling allowing for the publication of the returns, a three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled they won’t postpone the handover of the former president’s tax returns.

The Democratic-led House is suing in a number of ongoing cases to obtain years’ worth of Trump’s financial information, particularly his tax returns.

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Requests for comment were not immediately answered by the Trump legal team managing the lawsuit.

Trump “tried to delay the inevitable, but once again, the Court has affirmed the strength of our position,” said committee chairman Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat.

Neal further said, “We’ve waited long enough – we must begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit programme as soon as possible.” 

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The committee’s request to get Trump’s tax returns from the IRS was approved in August by a three-judge DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel. Trump later filed an appeal with the full DC Circuit, claiming that the court’s decision to rule in favour of the House contained “several errors.”

“The decision here will control future disputes between Congress and the Executive – including those of sitting Presidents – almost all of which arise in this circuit,” Trump stated.

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Shan Wu, a former federal prosecutor said that Thursday’s DC Circuit judgement is significant because it overturns long-standing presidential legal precedents.

“What’s really significant is this is a gradual whittling away at this kind of no-fly zone that’s developed around the presidency,” Wu claimed. “Congress can strengthen its oversight ability if the courts are saying, ‘yeah, this is legitimate oversight.’ And it actually offers the Supreme Court a chance to rebalance things here.”