News - Middle East: The US House Ways and Means Committee has released six years of former President Donald Trump's individual income tax returns as well as filings from multiple Trump business entities, ending his long-running effort to break precedent and keep them secret.

The move on Friday wraps up a year-long court battle from Ways and Means' Democratic majority to obtain the returns and comes just days before Republicans take control of the House.

An analysis of the documents by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), released by the Ways and Means Democrats last week, identified a range of areas in which the nonpartisan committee said warranted further review by auditors, including verifying losses carried from previous tax years, whether substantiation was provided for large charitable deductions and whether loans to Trump's children were disguised gifts.

The JCT said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had broken its own rules by not auditing Trump for three out of four years of Trump's presidential period.