In 2015, the Clintons paid an effective federal income tax rate of 34.2% on an adjusted gross income of $10,594,529.
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Their 2015 income was a little more than a third of what it was the year before and about half of their haul in 2007, the last full year in which Hillary Clinton was running for president.
Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, reported income of more than $313,000.
In a statement, Trump’s campaign called the release of Clinton’s tax return, “an attempt at distraction and misdirection” to take media attention off of Clinton’s private email server.
The Clinton campaign used the release of the tax returns to hit Donald Trump for failing to release his own.
Republican and Democratic candidates in the last nine presidential elections – since Ronald Reagan in 1980 – have released tax returns at least for the previous year, according to PolitiFact.
Mr. Trump has said he’s being audited by the IRS, and said it doesn’t make sense to release his returns in the middle of that audit. If he doesn’t, the real estate magnate would be the first presidential nominee in the last 40 years to not release his returns during election season.
Tax returns filed by the Clintons have been made public, in some form, for every year back to 1977. “We want to see the pay-for-play emails that Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, refuses to turn over”, Miller said.
The release appeared to be aimed at drawing renewed attention to Donald Trump’s refusal to release his own tax records. They gave 9.8 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.
The returns became a campaign issue after the documents showed he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 per cent, much lower than the typical rate for top earners. The latest blow, according to Fox News, is a letter from a group of former Republican legislators calling on the Republican National Committee cut funding to the presidential candidate.
The Democratic presidential candidate frequently mention’s the billionaire’s returns as a way of underscoring how his economic plans would benefit his personal interests and questioning whether he is as wealthy as he claims.
Clinton’s strategy borrows from President Barack Obama’s winning playbook against Mitt Romney in 2012.
Clinton had previously released her returns dating to 1997.
Trump has also faced questions about his charitable giving.
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Former president Bill Clinton and the former secretary of state donated nearly 10 percent of their income to charity in 2015 the records showed.
