Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million (about €9.5 million) past year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his own tax returns.
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In 2015, the Clintons paid an effective federal income tax rate of 34.2% on an adjusted gross income of $10,594,529.
Hillary Clinton just made her latest federal income tax return public, putting the pressure on Donald Trump to do the same.
“Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine continue to set the standard for financial transparency”, Clinton campaign aide Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement.
With the release of now 10 years of tax returns, Clinton brings attention to the almost 40-year bipartisan tradition of presidential candidates publicly disclosing their returns – and Trump’s refusal to do so. The couple earned more than $10m in 2015, the documents say.
There have been also been questions about how much Trump has paid in taxes over the years, whether he in fact paid any federal taxes some years, and whether he has followed through on his charitable pledges. The 2014 fees came from two education companies: Dubai-based GEMS Education (which the Clinton Global Initiative named as a partner organization in 2010) and Laureate Education, a series of for-profit colleges where Bill Clinton served as chairman from 2010-2015.
The release of tax information is generally expected of presidential candidates. The Clinton’s also donated an additional 10 percent of their income to charity.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that her Republican rival, Donald Trump incited violence when he said gun rights supporters could stop her from winning. Over the past decade the couple have donated 7.5% of their income to charity, and previous year paid an effective tax rate of 25.6%. In some form or another, Clinton has made hers public for every year since 1977. This is meant to put additional pressure on Trump, who has said he won’t release his taxes while they are under audit, something he claims is ongoing. For three other years – 1978, 1979 and 1984 – records show Trump paid no income taxes.
Mr Trump has cited an ongoing audit by the Internal Revenue Service, though the agency has said he is free to release his returns while under audit, as President Richard Nixon once did.
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The Clinton campaign released a new web video earlier in the day featuring footage of several prominent Republicans urging Trump to release his returns, including 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
