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2. Do presidents have to make public their federal tax returns?

President Ronald Reagan, joined by former Presidents Richard Nixon (l.), Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter (r.), toast one another in the Blue Room at the White House on Oct. 8, 1981, as the four met prior to the departure of the three former presidents to Cairo for the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. (AP/Ho/File)

Yes. It’s been the law of the land since Watergate.
No. They have the all the tax privacy rights of private citizens.
It varies, depending on the language of that year’s budget resolution.
Presidents don’t have to pay taxes because the IRS works for them.

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