Trump tax ruling

New York: United States President Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm must hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, a US appeals court ruled yesterday, the latest setback for Trump in his tenacious efforts to keep his finances secret.

The ruling by a unanimous threejudge panel of the New Yorkbased Second US Circuit Court of Appeals backed the ability of prosecutors to enforce a subpoena for the returns against accounting firm Mazars LLP.

Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for Trump, said the president would appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court, whose 54 conservative majority includes two justices appointed by Trump.

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a Democrat, is seeking the returns as part of a criminal investigation into Trump and his family real estate business. The scope of that probe is not publicly known. — Reuters