Anyway, it will be up to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig or more likely his boss, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to decide whether to comply with the request from Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.). Not that the law gives them much choice in the matter — it appears to allow Neal to request access to any person’s tax returns for any reason. And given that Congress adopted the law during the scandal-ridden administration of President Harding to make sure it could obtain executive-branch officials’ returns without the executive branch’s approval, the legislative history suggests Neal is on solid ground here.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 10, 2019 16:54 UTC