--- 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: 2026-02-23T00:23:38.143Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2016 3:19 PM UTC  MANCHESTER, NH - AUGUST 18: Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence speaks at a town hall campaign event at the Executive Banquet Center in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 18, 2016. MANCHESTER, NH - AUGUST 18: Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence speaks at a town hall campaign event at the Executive Banquet Center in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 18, 2016.Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images 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":"2026-02-23T00:23:38.143Z","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 topic"],"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"}}]}] ```