US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill earned a good $610,000 (€565,000) last year. That’s according to Biden’s 2021 tax return, which the White House routinely released on Friday. The couple paid a total of around $184,000 in taxes. The government center emphasized that Biden has made 24 years of tax returns public to date.
The publication of tax returns is part of US policy for the President and other high-ranking politicians. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, had always refused to follow this tradition as president. Trump has long been embroiled in litigation surrounding his financial and tax records, and he is going to great lengths and in a variety of ways to prevent document disclosure. the New York Times had reported in 2020 in the middle of the then presidential election campaign that the Republican had hardly paid any taxes for years. Trump denied that.
According to the White House, US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, reported income of around $1.66 million (€1.54 million) for 2021, on which they paid around $700,000 in taxes. the New York Times wrote on Friday that income from the sale of a property and from Harris’ memoirs contributed to the earnings of the two. In 2019, the two had a total income of almost $ 3.3 million. Harris was a senator at the time, and Emhoff had a lucrative job as an attorney.