House committee votes to release Trump’s tax returns to the public

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump broke decades of precedent by refusing to release his tax forms to the public

A powerful congressional committee on Tuesday voted to publicly release Donald Trump’s tax returns in a move that is sure to ignite a political row as well as anger among some privacy experts in America.

The Democratic-controlled House ways and means committee decided to release the documents, which the former US president has long tried to shield, after several hours of debate.