According to her 2015 return, the Democratic presidential candidate and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, took home more than $10 million, paying 43.2 percent to the federal, state and local government.
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Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine has also released 10 years of tax information.
Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax return Friday, as her campaign dials up the pressure on Republican Donald Trump to do the same.
Clinton’s campaign also released a list of 41 speeches that she delivered in 2013, with speaking fees ranging from 225,000 dollars to 400,000 dollars.
The information, posted on the campaign website, shows that Ms Clinton paid a federal tax rate of 34.7 per cent and a local rate of 9 per cent in 2015.
We are now less than 90 days from the November general election (hooray! hooray!) and yet have seen neither hide nor hair of the returns of this year’s Republican candidate, a guy who, coincidentally, has owned a huge, complex business for as long as Ivanka Trump has been alive.
In 2012, then-Republican presidential Mitt Romney reluctantly released his returns.
The Clintons’ 2015 return showed that, unlike most Americans, just $100 of their income came from wages.
Trump has said he can not release his returns because of an ongoing audit.
Trump has faced a series of self-inflicted controversies since the Democratic National Convention last month, when he suggested that Russian Federation should hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails from when she was secretary of state.
“Just previous year alone, and what I believe with all my heart, is that what’s happening here can happen in so many places”.
In total, the Clintons earned than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to eight years of federal income tax returns released by her campaign last July. The tax issue allows Clinton to cast herself as forthcoming and honest, two attributes that many voters say they find lacking in her.
In an interview with Fox News on Thursday night, Trump said again that he is under “routine audit” and that’s why he has not released his tax returns.
Hillary Clinton said Thursday her economic plan would create jobs by investing in infrastructure and restoring manufacturing, criticizing her opponent Donald Trump’s proposals as amounting to a huge tax break for the wealthiest Americans.
“Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC’s available resources on preserving the GOP’s congressional majorities”. Bill Clinton earned $225,000 for a February speech sponsored by UBS Wealth Management, for example, and Hillary Clinton gave a speech for eBay in March for $315,000. In 2015, that number dropped by more than half, as they together reported $10.7 million.
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The Clintons have disclosed tax returns for every year since 1977.
