Hillary Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns this week in order to highlight her Republican opponent Donald Trump’s refusal to make his own returns public, CNBC reported Thursday.
The returns will show that Clinton’s effective tax rate is around 35 percent and her charitable donations make up 10 percent, according to the network.
The Democratic nominee released her 2007-2014 returns earlier in the race and made them public on her campaign website. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), is also expected to release ten years of his tax returns this week.
In a break with 40 years of precedent for presidential nominees, Trump has repeatedly refused to release his own tax records. He attributed his refusal to an ongoing audit by the IRS, though the agency said that an audit would not prevent Trump from making his returns public.
Newsweek this week reported that Trump has yet to definitively prove that the IRS is auditing Trump’s taxes, and did not respond to the news site’s request for the standard audit letter the agency sends to subjects of investigations.
There is no way Trump will ever release his returns. He needs to be made to pay a price for it, every single day. This is a step, but it will take a lot more.
He won’t release them because he doesn’t want to be president. Hiding what is in them is more important than the consequences of not releasing them.
I am not sure Donnie will care if Clinton and Kaine release their tax returns. He will never release his because they would serve the same purpose as pulling back the curtain did in the Wizzard of Oz. They would reveal that Trump is a complete fraud.
“I pay my fair share of tax–trust me. I pay a yuge amount on taxes, just yuge. I don’t need to release my taxes because the voters love me. I have eight million lovers. Women love me, they really do. My daughter loves me. Look at her over there–isn’t she just the greatest? Americas daughters love me. So vote for me. Hillary doesn’t love your daughters the way I do!”