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Tax Day Protests Planned Across The Country

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Dressed as the "Real Chicken Don" Shawn Frye joins others in calling for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Tax March Sacramento activists are planning to join others in a protest on Tax Day, April 15 calling on the the president to release his tax returns. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
Dressed as the "Real Chicken Don" Shawn Frye joins others in calling for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Tax March Sacramento activists are planning to join others in a protest on Tax Day, April 15 calling on the the president to release his tax returns. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

On Saturday, protesters are planning demonstrations in cities around the country to call on President Trump to release his tax returns. Demonstrators are calling for greater government transparency, and say they want to see how changes in tax policy might benefit Trump financially and highlight conflicts of interest.

Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR senior business editor Marilyn Geewax (@geewaxnpr) about the protests.

This segment aired on April 14, 2017.

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