Article snippet: Treasury Secretary MORE's tax returns, a move that's likely to trigger a court battle for the documents. “We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the Committee’s subpoena,” Mnuchin said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE (D-Mass.). Mnuchin reiterated in the letter that Treasury has determined that Neal's request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose." Both Mnuchin and Neal have said they think the dispute will be decided in the courts. Neal told reporters hours before Mnuchin sent his letter that Democrats “will likely proceed to court as quickly as next week." In a statement issued after Mnuchin rejected the subpoena, Neal said he is "consulting with counsel on how best to enforce the subpoenas moving forward.” Neal last week issued subpoenas for six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns — 2013 to 2018 — after Mnuchin rejected the chairman’s request for the documents under a statute that states that the Treasury Secretary “shall furnish” tax returns requested by the chairpeople of congress’s tax-writing committees, so long as information associated with any specific taxpayers is reviewed in a closed session. Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had been given a deadline of 5 p.m. on Friday to produce the tax returns sought in the subpoenas. Democrats argue that the documents are needed for a legitimate legislative purpose. Neal stated in his initial request for the tax returns that the Ways... Link to the full article to read more