"President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a case against the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury for $10 billion (8.39 billion), accusing the agencies of leaking his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The lawsuit, filed in Florida by the president in his personal capacity with his two eldest sons Eric and Donald Jr. and their family enterprise, The Trump Organization, said the IRS and US Treasury Department "had a duty to safeguard and protect Plaintiffs' confidential tax returns.""
"In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles "Chaz" Edward Littlejohn was sentenced to five years of imprisonment after he pleaded guilty of leaking the tax information to news organizations. Following the tax information leak, the New York Times reported in 2020 that Trump, who had repeatedly refused to make his tax returns public, paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017, and none at all for 10 of the previous 15 years."
Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit in Florida against the IRS and Treasury, joined personally by his sons Eric and Donald Jr. and the Trump Organization. The lawsuit alleges confidential tax returns were leaked to news outlets between 2018 and 2020 and that the agencies breached a duty to safeguard those returns. The plaintiffs claim the leaks caused reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, and business damage. Former IRS contractor Charles "Chaz" Edward Littlejohn pleaded guilty and in 2024 was sentenced to five years for leaking the tax information. The leak violated IRS Code 6103 and prosecutors described the disclosures as unparalleled in IRS history, with records showing minimal federal income tax payments for certain years.
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