Hillary Clinton released her income tax return for 2015, federal documents showed Friday.
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The Democratic power couple earned just over $6.7 million in speaking fees past year, according to their 2015 tax returns released on Friday.
And on Friday, Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax return, which means that she’s now released fifteen years of taxes. Kaine paid a federal tax rate of 20.3 percent in 2015.
Hillary Clinton on Friday did something every major party’s presidential nominee has done since 1976, with the sole exception of the man she is now running against: She released her tax returns. Their 2015 filings show an income of $10.6 million, far less than the $28 million reported in 2014.
“Here’s a pretty incredible fact: There is a non-zero chance that Donald Trump isn’t paying (asterisk) any (asterisk) taxes”, Clinton tweeted, after releasing her own returns.
The release is part of an effort to undercut Mr Trump’s character by questioning the businessman’s record. The agency, while not indicating whether the Republican presidential nominee is being audited, has said anyone can release their returns, under audit or not.
All major USA presidential candidates in modern history have released their returns.
If you haven’t heard a lot about what Hillary Clinton thinks of a string of controversial comments by Donald Trump that have generated round-the-clock coverage on cable news broadcasts, there is a reason – it’s by design.
Federal tax rates have become an issue in the presidential election. The Clinton’s also donated an additional 10 percent of their income to charity.
The power couple took in $3.1 million from their books, while Bill Clinton’s consulting business brought in just under $1.7 million.
The Clinton campaign attacked her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, for failing to make his own tax documents public.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at Futuramic Tool & Engineering in Warren, Michigan August 11.
Clinton’s strategy borrows from President Barack Obama’s winning playbook against Mitt Romney in 2012. Over the past decade, he and his wife earned the most in 2014, more than $314,000 in adjusted gross income.
“We want to see the transcripts of the secret Wall Street speeches Ms. Clinton was paid $10,000 dollars-a-minute to give”.
Trump’s exercise in self-awareness is a marked departure from his usual tenor on the campaign trail, where for months at rallies he would tick through poll numbers showing him winning as if they were sports scores of his favourite team.
A lower income would undermine his image as a successful businessman.
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The poll found Clinton widening her lead in Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina, while holding her advantage in Florida.
