US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden, a still-serving college professor, earned $579,514 last year and paid a total of $169,820 in taxes, the White House said Tuesday.
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With this publication, President Biden has brought to the public's attention a total of 25 years of tax declarations
", indicated the American executive.
The press release emphasizes
the 80-year-old Democrat's "
commitment to transparency ", a mention certainly not innocent in the American political context.
Joe Biden, who is increasingly signaling his intention to seek re-election, could face Donald Trump in 2024.
Tax transparency
However, the Republican, who has broken with the White House's practice of fiscal transparency, is fighting for his part to keep his tax returns confidential.
A parliamentary committee voted last December to publish the billionaire's six years of tax returns between 2015 and 2020.
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For example, we learned that Donald Trump had paid only 750 dollars in taxes in 2017, his first year in the White House, then around a million in 2018 and 2019 … and nothing at all in 2020, the year of his loss to Joe Biden and where his earnings were in the red of $5 million.
The Biden couple also donated $20,180 to charities last year, the statement said.
The White House added that Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff declared $456,918 in 2022.