U.S. Democratic Party President and Vice Presidential Candidates Release Tax Forms
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, September 29 (Reporter Deng Xianlai and Sun Ding) The campaign team of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Biden announced on the 29th the tax returns for Biden and his wife, and vice presidential candidate Harris and husband respectively.
Kate Bedingfield, deputy manager of the Biden campaign team, told reporters on the same day that Biden’s release of his tax bills demonstrated "honesty and transparency." She also asked US President Trump to release his tax bills.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly publicly promised to make his tax bills public after the IRS concluded relevant audits.
But shortly after he took office, Conway, then a senior White House adviser, said that Trump would not publish his tax bills.
Trump's approach broke the American practice of the past few decades and is widely questioned.
On September 27, the "New York Times" quoted Trump tax information it had obtained and reported that Trump only paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
According to the report, Trump used a variety of tax credit policy methods. In the 15 years before 2016, Trump had 10 years of federal income tax payment of zero.
Trump denounced it as "fake news" on the day the report was published, saying that he had "paid a lot and paid a lot of state income taxes" and would make tax records public.
Biden and Trump will hold the first presidential debate in the 2020 US election in Cleveland, Ohio on the 29th.