Bernie Sanders Releases Tax Returns, Showing Million-Dollar Years
- Book deals bolstered Vermont senator’s income in recent years
- 2020 Democrats are using tax release to contrast with Trump
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Senator Bernie Sanders released a decade’s worth of his tax returns after years of resisting disclosure as he makes a second run at the presidency against Democratic Party rivals who are making financial transparency a litmus test for the campaign.
The returns show Sanders and his wife, Jane, earned more than $1 million in total income in 2016 and 2017. They earned $519,529 of taxable income in 2018, paying $145,840 in federal taxes for an effective rate of 28 percent. The Vermont independent, one of 18 declared candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, reported income from his job in the Senate and more than $381,000 in income from book royalties in 2018.