GREEN DOT CORPORATION RAPID PAY CARD META BANK RAPID GREENDOT PREPAID RAPID PREPAID CARD Won't Release my Bank Statements withholding my public records THIS COMPANY REFUSES TO MAIL ME MY  PUBLIC RECORDS BANK STATMENTS !!! PASADENA CALIFORNIA

You had 2 years to take care of this.   

When you start calling your bank statements "Public Records", that is all that needs to be said about your knowledge. A public record is something the PUBLIC has access to, and I am sure that you would not be wanting any stranger to go to the bank and request your statements.

Can you cite the law that says it is illegal for them to not supply you with the statements? You had access to them back in 2018, and it is YOUR responsibility to maintain these records for up to 7 years if you are using them for tax purposes. If you want the previous years' statements they have every legal right to charge you for the service of pulling those records. The fact that these documents are important to you doesn't give you an excuse as to why they shouldn't charge you.

And yes 3 years of statements at $1 per page is likely going to cost you a couple of hundred dollars especially if you have a lot of transactions.  So if the tax and penalties you are going to owe aren't more than this you may be better off just paying the tax.

By the way, don't expect a bank statement to prove that you had expenses related to your job. For example say you rent a car for 24 hours, you spend 6 hours actually using it for your job, 2 hours you spent doing "Personal" errands and left it idle for the other 18 hours. The IRS would give you credit for 25% of the rental cost because that is the time you actually spent using it for your job.

But you need to prove that 25%, such as by keeping a log as to the time you started, ended and how many miles driven, and to what locations. you needed it for your job. Without any sort of log, you have no proof of how much time you actually spent on the job and would likely have the entire rental deduction disallowed.

The same goes for gas. Yes, you can show them you bought gas, but without a log indicating how much time(or miles) you spent actually driving for your job the statements will be about as much use as a swimsuit is in the Sahara desert. In fact, if you had logs that showed miles driven and to what locations you wouldn't need any bank statements at all.

Good Luck.