Cuomo Enacts Bill To Furnish State Data In Tax Probe of Trump

In a move that appeared designed to give congressional Democrats access to President Trump’s tax returns, Governor Cuomo July 8 signed into law a bill directing his Tax Commissioner to provide state income-tax returns if requested to the chairpersons of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

State returns for New York taxpayers contain much of the information that would be included in their Federal returns, and so the new law could make available to the congressional panels the data that Mr. Trump has withheld going back to the 2016 presidential campaign, when he became the first major-party presidential nominee in four decades to refuse to publicly disclose his tax returns for recent years.