barack obama tax filings

Presidential candidates tax returns analyzed by Roni Deutch

Senator Hillary Clinton (D)

While Senator Clinton receives only $ 165,200 per year from his salary as a U.S. Senator, she and her husband (Bill Clinton) made millions of conferences, book deals, and interest of his great fortune. Over the past 7 years, the Clintons have an adjusted gross income of nearly 110 million U.S. dollars. Nearly half This energy comes from former President Bill Clinton speeches. According to his remarks, Clinton paid a total of $ 33,783,507 in taxes, which puts them in a rate average tax of 31%. This rate is well above the average of only 20% of Americans earning more than $ 10 million.

Over the last seven years, the Clintons have donated U.S. $ 10,256,741, which is the maximum contribution of all other presidential candidates. Gave a total of nearly 10% of your adjusted gross income (AGI).

Senator Barack Obama (D)

Senator Obama and his wife have a net worth over the last three candidates for president. The bulk of his fortune has relatively little accumulated in recent years. In 2000, total revenue was $ 240,505 Obama, including salary as a state senator Barack again and his wife's salary for their work in a hospital. Their salaries remained relatively constant until 2005, when Barack made more than $ 1.2 million of costs author and his wife's salary has increased to over $ 300,000.

One important thing to note about the return of Obama "is the extremely low percentage of adjusted gross income donated to charities. In 2001 and 2002 gave less 0.5% of revenues, and grants the next few years are not much better. When asked about their funding under a spokesman for Mr. Obama said: "As new parents who were repaying their student loans great, giving $ 10,000 to charity [from 2000 to 2004] was as generous as they could be in the moment. "However, it is interesting to note that fact more than 1.4 million in 2005, but still gave less than 5% of your adjusted gross income to charity. This is a much smaller percentage than Clinton's donations in 6 of past 7 years.

Senator John McCain (R)

While Senator McCain may be more in net worth the remaining candidates, depending on your tax return is much, much lower. Why? Because McCain is the only remaining candidates to submit a statement separate from his wife so much richer. To be fair, the couple filed separate returns for all but one of its 27 years of marriage. However, no information or a summary of his wife's fortune has been made public yet. Moreover, McCain is the only candidate to release their most recent statements. The Clintons have made their statements of 1992, public, and Obama is from 2000.

In 2006 and 2007 AGI McCain has been relatively low of only $ 338.809 and $ 386.527 respectively. Most of its revenues from $ 165 .200 a year she earns as U.S. senator and $ 54,000 pension from the Navy. As you can see in the table below, because of their low incomes, McCain has won the highest percentage of its revenues outside the remaining candidates. Despite its grant $ 202,225 in 2006 and 2007 totaled approximately $ 4,580,503 Clinton 5% of total donations.

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