The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee voted on Tuesday to release material from former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

The 76-year-old former president’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020 were obtained by the committee from the IRS last month after a years-long legal battle. In 2019, the committee had initially requested six years worth of Trump’s tax returns spanning 2013 to 2018, but were denied by the IRS and Treasury Department.

The motion approved by all 24 Democrats on the committee, and voted against by all 16 Republicans on the panel, will reportedly pave the way for the release of the returns to the entire House of Representatives.

On Tuesday night, committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) released a report detailing Trump’s individual tax records from 2015-2020 and those of eight of his business entities.

The report shows that a mandatory presidential audit of Trump’s taxes “did not occur” annually as required, with the former president’s tax returns only being subjected to the audit once in 2019.

The committee recommended in its report that legislative changes be made to strengthen the presidential audit program, including adding requirements “for the mandatory examination of the President with disclosure of certain audit information and related returns in a timely manner.” 

“The research that was done as it relates to the mandatory audit program was nonexistent,” Neal told reporters after the committee meeting. “I emphasize again that the mandatory program, as highlighted in what you will likely get in the next few minutes or so, it was almost nonexistent.”

In a separate report summarizing the Joint Committee on Taxation’s review of Trump’s returns, the JCT said it could not determine if Trump should have paid more or less taxes, citing a lack of investigatory power to demand documents from Trump and his businesses and to seek interviews with IRS agents assigned to audit Trump. 

“I think we need to leave that to the tax folks,” Neal said when asked by reporters if he saw any red flags in Trump’s taxes.

It is unclear if the public will get to see any more details from Trump’s tax returns.

The committee said personal information will be redacted from the documents before they are more widely distributed. 

Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Kevin Brady ripped Democrats for releasing Trump’s financial information, claiming that IRS audits on the returns have yet to be completed.  

“What became clear is that almost all those audits that the IRS is doing is not yet complete. So any characterizations of the returns themselves, you have to acknowledge, this is incomplete at this time,” Brady said.

“We are unified in our concern the Democrats may today move forward with unprecedented action that will jeopardize the right of every American to be protected from political targeting by Congress,” Brady said.

In November, the Treasury Department said it had complied with lower court orders to hand the committee the tax returns after the Supreme Court denied Trump’s request for a temporary stay preventing lawmakers from obtaining the documents.

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has sought Trump’s tax records since 2016, when Trump became the first presidential candidate in four decades to refuse to voluntarily submit the documents to public scrutiny, citing an alleged audit.

House Democrats have been investigating whether the former commander-in-chief used the White House for personal enrichment, recently revealing that the Trump Organization made hundreds of thousands of dollars from stays at Trump-owned hotels by foreign leaders and the Secret Service.

The decision to make Trump’s tax returns public may have ramifications on the former president’s 2024 campaign, which he announced in November, becoming so far the only declared GOP presidential candidate.