Hillary made almost $1.5 million in income from speaking appearances, while Bill took in $5.25 million that way.
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Their income would place the Clintons well within the top 0.1 percent of earners, based on data for the 2015 tax year, said Emmanuel Saez, an economist who specializes in income inequality.
Clinton said the emails in question “were about telephone calls that she needed to make, and the State Department usually typically puts a little “C” on it to discourage people from discussing it in public in the event the secretary of state, whoever it is, doesn’t make a telephone call”, according to CNN.
Most released their returns for several years, such as Bob Dole en 1996.
Clinton and her husband Bill, the former president, reported 10.6 million USA dollar in income for 2015.
A Trump campaign spokesman said Friday that Hillary Clinton’s tax return represents “the only records nobody wants to see from her” and called them “an attempt at distraction and misdirection”.
Trump has said he is worth more than $10bn, but no one has been able to confirm this independently.
“We want to see the transcripts of the secret Wall Street speeches Ms. Clinton was paid $10,000 dollars-a-minute to give”.
The New York Times reported that Trump had likely benefited from tax breaks available to real estate developers in past years, as in 1978 and 1979, when he paid no federal income tax at all, according to documents he made public in 1981 when applying for a casino license in New Jersey.
Clinton’s running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with his wife, Anne Holton, released 10 years of tax returns.
Donald Trump, despite facing a great deal of criticism over the issue, still hasn’t released his tax returns, something the Clinton campaign continues to try and draw negative attention to.
Trump has claimed that he can not release tax returns because he is being audited.
The IRS has said Trump can release his tax returns while under audit.
Their annual income was down from 2014, when the couple reported $27.9 million in income, their highest total. That year, the Clintons paid $10.6 million in taxes, at an effective rate of 35.7 percent. Hogan Lovells US LLP, a global law firm in NY with a tax practice, prepared and signed the return.
The Clintons’ 2015 return showed that, unlike most Americans, just $100 of their income came from wages.
“I don’t see anything out of the ordinary, considering the profession they’re in”, said Brian Stoner, a certified public accountant in Burbank, California.
In 2015 the Clintons made US$1m in charitable contributions, mostly to the Clinton Foundation.
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Bill Clinton’s office previously said he had ended his consulting work with Laureate previous year. Over the last decade, the couple has donated 7.5 percent of their income to charity, the campaign said, and paid an effective tax rate of 25.6 percent past year.
