Their 2015 return was released today by the Clinton campaign, nearly five months after they signed it for filing.
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In addition, the Clintons donated 9.8 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity, the campaign reported.
Clinton released her 2015 federal income tax return on Friday in a move to pressure Trump to release his returns.
Trump said in May that he will release his tax returns once a routine audit is complete, according to CNN.
Trump’s critics have speculated that the real estate tycoon is hiding his tax returns because they may reveal that he has vastly overstated his personal wealth, has unsavory business ties with the Russians, or may be stingy with charitable donations – or some combination thereof. Overall they paid 43.2 percent of their income in federal, state and local taxes. Buffet said that he too was under IRS audit and Trump is “afraid” not of the tax-collection agency but of voters.
Clinton has pounced on the issue, releasing an online video highlighting high-profile Republicans urging Trump to release his taxes.
The Democratic presidential nominee famously told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2014 that she and her husband “came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt”.
In fact, the most recent survey, by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind, gave Clinton her largest lead of the campaign, 21 points.
Mr Trump said he was not anxious that Republicans would cut him off – and threatened to stop fundraising for the party if they do. The couple’s tax forms show that to be a pretty profitable enterprise: the former president earned $1.7 million in consulting fees last year – but that is down from $6.4 million the year before. But legendary investor and billionaire Warren Buffett earlier this month challenged the Republican presidential nominee to discuss their tax returns publicly.
U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton gestures to spectators on the last day of the 2016 U.S. Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States, on July 28, 2016. The couple earned more than $10m in 2015, the documents say.
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In 2015, Kaine and Holton reported $313,441 in total income, the vast majority of that coming from their respective salaries, Kaine as a USA senator and Holton as Virginia’s secretary of education. “And according to an independent analysis by a former economic adviser to Senator John McCain, if you add up all of Trump’s ideas from cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations, to starting a trade war with China, to deporting millions of hardworking immigrants, the result would be a loss of 3.4 million jobs”. During each of the 10 years, they gave a minimum of $11,209 to charity, with the amount exceeding $20,000 in four of those years.
