US President Donald Trump secured a government agreement on Tuesday that bars the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from carrying out audits or investigations into past activities of the Republican politician’s family and businesses, EFE reported on Wednesday.

The agreement, disclosed by the Justice Department and signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, stipulates that the IRS will be “forever prohibited and barred” from making claims about Trump family activities that took place before Tuesday.

The provision is part of a broader out-of-court settlement reached by the administration and the Republican leader to resolve the lawsuit filed by Donald Trump and his children against the IRS over the disclosure of his tax returns.

According to the document seen by EFE, a $1.8 billion fund is expected to be set up to compensate victims of an alleged “weaponisation” of the US judicial system.

At the beginning of 2026, Donald Trump sued the IRS together with his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump over the leaking of his tax returns to the media.

The lawsuit arose after the disclosure in 2020 and 2021 of confidential tax records obtained by outlets such as The New York Times and ProPublica, which published reports on Trump’s low tax payments and the finances of American billionaires.

In the tax documents made public by ProPublica, it was found that Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017.

In addition, it was revealed that Donald Trump paid no federal taxes in 11 of the 18 years examined because of the large losses declared by his businesses.

AGERPRES