--- description: Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he will release his tax returns in the next week title: Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon 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 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mike Pence Says He'll Release His Tax Returns Soon by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2016 3:19 PM CUT  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](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2016 3:19 PM CUT 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 "undefined") 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 "undefined"). 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/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined"). “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"}}]}] ```