Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10B over leaked tax records

Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Jr., and the Trump Organization filed a $10 billion lawsuit in Miami against the IRS and Treasury Department on January 29, 2026, alleging failure to prevent the leak of his tax records to media outlets. The 2020 leak was carried out by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 after providing Trump's returns to The New York Times and ProPublica. Trump was the first president in decades to refuse voluntary tax disclosure, making the records a sustained subject of public interest.