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<\/p>\nWASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden reported earning $607,336 last year and paying $157,414 in federal income taxes, according to 2020 federal income tax returns made public Monday.<\/p>\n
The White House released the Bidens’ tax returns and those of Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, coinciding\u00a0with Monday’s extended deadline to pay federal income taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The transparency on taxes restores a White House tradition that was broken by former President Donald Trump, who refused to release his tax returns as president. It marks the\u00a023rd year of tax returns released by Biden.<\/p>\n
The Bidens, who filed their tax returns jointly,\u00a0had an effective federal income tax rate of\u00a025.9%. The Bidens also reported paying $28,794 in Delaware income tax in separate state income tax returns\u00a0made public. In addition, Jill Biden released her Virginia income tax return, reporting\u00a0paying $443 in Virginia income tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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President Joe Biden on May 5, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Evan Vucci\/AP)<\/span><\/p>\n Harris\u00a0and Emhoff reported federal adjusted gross income of $1,695,225 in 2020 and paying\u00a0$621,893 in federal income tax, amounting to an effective federal income tax rate of 36.7%.<\/p>\n The 2020\u00a0tax returns cover a period while Biden was running for president and Harris, then a U.S.\u00a0senator from California,\u00a0was seeking the Democratic nomination for president\u00a0and later running as Biden’s running-mate.\u00a0<\/p>\n More than one-third of the income reported by the Bidens, $252,035, came from pensions and annuities. The Bidens earned an additional $212,681 from Giacoppa Corp., a corporation formed by the Bidens. The couple reported $45,836 in Social Security benefits and $12,861 from Northern Virginia Community College, where Jill Biden teaches English.<\/p>\n The Bidens reported donating $30,704 to charitable organizations in 2020, totaling 5.1% of their income. Their\u00a0largest charitable contribution, $10,000, was to the Beau Biden Foundation, a charity named for the president’s late son dedicated to ensuring children are free from abuse. Biden donated $5,000 apiece to the Food Bank of Delaware and International Association of Fire Fighters Foundation and $1,000 to\u00a0St. Joseph on the Brandywine, the Catholic Church that he and the first lady\u00a0regularly attend in Wilmington, Delaware.<\/p>\n In 2019,\u00a0Biden paid $287,693 in federal income taxes and reported an adjusted gross income of $985,233. The Biden campaign\u00a0released the 2019 tax returns hours before his first debate with Trump in September.<\/p>\n Harris and Emhoff paid\u00a0$125,004 in California income tax in 2020, and\u00a0Emhoff paid $56,997 in District of Columbia income tax, according to state returns also released.\u00a0The second couple reported\u00a0paying $27,006 in charity in 2020\u00a0\u2013 1.6% of their total income.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump refused to release his tax records when he ran for president in 2016 and during the four years he was in office, breaking a 40-year tradition of presidents sharing their tax returns with the public in one form\u00a0or another. Trump used the excuse that he could not reveal them because of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. An audit, however, does not prevent a president from releasing his records.<\/p>\n The New York Times said last September it obtained copies of Trump\u2019s tax records, which showed he paid only $750 in personal federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The records also showed Trump was beset by hundreds of millions in personal debt that would come due within the next four years, the paper said.<\/p>\n Trump dismissed the report as \u201ctotally fake news\u201d and claimed, without presenting evidence, that he paid taxes.<\/p>\n