Steven Mnuchin

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal is under pressure from the left if he doesn’t move more quickly to obtain the president’s tax returns.

The Treasury Secretary said he hasn’t discussed with the president or his attorneys the efforts by lawmakers to seek his tax returns.

The Tax Court recently ruled against a married couple that tried to garnish the salary of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay their tax bills.

The average tax refund check is nearly identical to last year’s average refund, increasing less than 1 percent to $3,068 in 2019.

The average tax refund increased 1.3 percent compared to last year, but the total value of those checks and the number of people receiving the payments continued to drop steadily in the first filing season under the new tax law.

Tax refunds in the U.S. jumped 17 percent week over week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin faces an uphill battle convincing Americans that smaller tax refunds don’t mean they paid more taxes.

For the week ending Feb. 1, 2019, the service received 16,035,000 returns, compared to 18,302,000 returns last year, a 12.4 percent decrease.

A congressional committee heard testimony about forcing the release of the president's tax filings.

Lawmakers want to know how the longest government shutdown in history will affect one of the most critical tax filing seasons. But it’s unlikely they’re going to get any answers this week.