Article snippet: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE's tax returns, after the agency missed his original deadline to provide the documents. In the new letter, Neal said that concerns about his request "lack merit" and that he expects a response from the IRS by 5 p.m. on April 23. "Please know that, if you fail to comply, your failure will be interpreted as a denial of my request," Neal wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. Neal had sent a letter earlier this month to Rettig requesting that the IRS provide six years' worth of Trump's personal and business tax returns by April 10. The Democratic chairman said that his committee is interested in the returns because it is considering legislative proposals and oversight relating to tax laws, including the extent to which the IRS enforces tax laws against a sitting president. Treasury Secretary MORE responded to the letter, saying that the department was unable to finish its review of the request by April 10. He said Treasury would be consulting with the Justice Department on the matter and that he would be supervising Treasury's handling of the request. Mnuchin told reporters on Saturday, at the end of International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, that the new April 23 deadline was "arbitrary." He said he expected Treasury to respond to Neal's letter by that date but didn't commit that the department would finish its review of the chairman's request by then. “The implications of this is way beyond, in m... Link to the full article to read more