Their main investment was a low-priced index mutual fund, and the Clintons reported dividend and interest income of $109,000.
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The 2015 return also showed the Clintons forked over $3.2 million in federal income taxes, which is an effective tax rate of about 34 percent.
The Democratic nominee’s effective tax rate is around 35 percent, while her charitable donations make up 10 percent, CNBC said.
Seeking common ground with blue-collar workers who have been attracted to Trump, Clinton frequently mentions his returns as a way of underscoring how his economic plans would benefit his personal interests and questioning whether he’s as wealthy as he claims. They have now released their tax returns for every one of the last 39 years.
Critics, including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, have blasted Trump for failing to disclose his tax rate and raised questions about what his returns say about his net worth and various business ties, particularly in Russian Federation.
Republican strategist and Trump supporter Ford O’Connell said Trump has “dug himself a deep hole” with voters and to win the election he will need to “make it a referendum on Hillary Clinton and the ‘rigged system'”.
The big bread victor previous year was Bill Clinton.
The 2015 tax return posted on her campaign website appears along with the Clintons’ filings since 2007.
It’s a major drop in income from the more than $28 million they earned in 2014 and $27 million in 2013 – the two years after Mrs. Clinton left the State Department, but before she was running for president.
Normally bursting with bluster, Donald Trump made rare admissions of vulnerability in making media rounds yesterday, admitting his campaign is having “problems” and openly entertaining the potential of losing November’s election following another controversy-laced news cycle.
Kaine also released his returns dating to 2006, while the Clintons released all of their annual tax returns going back to 1977.
Just hours before her address, Trump unleashed another round of attacks on Democrats, calling Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State militant group – and Clinton its co-founder.
Republican Donald Trump says the US government should take on more debt to strengthen the military and rebuild infrastructure.
For the 2015 tax year, Hillary and Bill Clinton reported adjusted gross income of $10.6 million and a tax bill of $3.6 million.
“I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as President”, she said, while also noting that the USA should not cut itself off from the rest of the world.
In other income, Bill Clinton drew $226,297 in pensions as former president and former governor of Arkansas.
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“Based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else”, she said, at a manufacturing company.
