--- title: Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon description: Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he will release his tax returns in the next week canonical: https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-04T15:19:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:45:34.794Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon og:description: "Donald Trump and I are both going to release our tax returns" og:url: https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64172afa0cd18d6/6988a4c95f570f9f78b22691/mike-pence-tax-returns.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4332 og:image:height: 2437 og:image:alt: Mike Pence Campaigns In New Hampshire og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon twitter:description: "Donald Trump and I are both going to release our tax returns" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64172afa0cd18d6/6988a4c95f570f9f78b22691/mike-pence-tax-returns.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon > Sponsored content. 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Pence's will come this week but it isn't as clear for Trump._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2016 3:19 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2016 3:19 PM UTC Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he will release his tax returns in the next week, and that running mate Donald Trump will release his after an IRS audit of them is complete. “Donald Trump and I are both going to release our tax returns. I’ll release mine in the next week,” the Indiana governor said in an interview with [NBC’s “Meet the Press.”](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/mtp-exclusive-pence-to-release-tax-returns-next-week-757640259504) Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns has become a [controversy in the presidential campaign](http://time.com/4441399/donald-trump-tax-returns/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28TIME%3A+Politics%29). The Republican presidential nominee has said that several years of his tax returns are [under an IRS audit](http://time.com/4470908/donald-trump-tax-returns-poll/) and that he won’t release them until the audit is over, which his campaign expects to end sometime after the November 8 election. Pence maintained the audit is why Trump has not released his tax returns, though the [IRS has said the candidate is free to release them despite the audit](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/26/donald-trump-internal-revenue-service-audits/80996086/). “Donald Trump will be releasing his tax returns at the completion of an audit,” he said during the interview. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/"},"headline":"Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon","datePublished":"2016-09-04T15:19:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T06:45:34.794Z","description":"\"Donald Trump and I are both going to release our tax returns\"","url":"https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64172afa0cd18d6/6988a4c95f570f9f78b22691/mike-pence-tax-returns.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64172afa0cd18d6/6988a4c95f570f9f78b22691/mike-pence-tax-returns.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mike Pence Campaigns In New Hampshire","caption":"Mike Pence Campaigns In New Hampshire","creditText":"Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4478819/mike-pence-tax-returns-release/","name":"Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Republican VP Pick Mike Pence Says He Will Release Returns","description":"Republican VP-pick Mike Pence says he and Donald Trump will be releasing his returns. 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