Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE has been pressured for months to release his tax returns but refuses to do so until he is done being audited by the IRS.

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But experts tell The Wall Street Journal that Trump and his lawyers know the IRS’s deadlines and thus can take their time negotiating settlements and responding to requests for documents.

Outstanding audits of Trump go back as far as 2009, the Journal reported, which means the businessman has given the IRS permission to expand its investigation beyond the three-year statute of limitations, according to lawyers who focus on tax matters.

“He certainly has a lot of influence over the audit ending sooner or later,” Bryan Skarlatos of Kostelanetz & Fink LLP to the paper. “It would be relatively easy at this point to extend the audit beyond the elections.”

Tax lawyer Robert McKenzie said it’s “close to impossible” that the multiyear audit would be completed by Election Day.

Trump has received scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans for refusing to release his tax returns.

If he stays on his current course, Trump would become the first major-party presidential candidate since 1976 to release none of his tax returns.

Last week, billionaire Warren Buffett taunted Trump at a rally for Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Democratic super PAC to hit Trump in battleground states over coronavirus deaths Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE, saying he’d meet the nominee at ”any place, any time" so the two could publicly exchange their tax returns.