China News Service, Washington, September 29 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The campaign team of US Democratic presidential candidate Biden announced the 2019 tax slips for Biden and his wife on the 29th local time.

　　The tax bill showed that Biden and his wife had a total income of US$985,000 in 2019 and paid a total of nearly US$300,000 in taxes.

The income of the two includes income from a diplomatic center that Biden is in charge of at the University of Pennsylvania, his wife's employment at the university, and income from speeches and royalties.

Data map: Biden, the US Democratic presidential candidate.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong

　　The Biden campaign team also announced the 2019 tax returns for the Democratic vice presidential candidate Harris and her husband.

The two had a total income of approximately US$3 million and paid a total of approximately US$1.2 million in taxes.

　　Kate Bedingfield, deputy manager of the Biden campaign team, said that Biden and Harris demonstrated "honesty and transparency" in publishing their tax returns. She also asked US President Trump to publish their tax returns.

　　In the United States, it has been common practice for presidential candidates to publish tax returns for decades.

During Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, he publicly promised to make his tax bills public after the IRS concluded relevant audits, but he has not yet published his tax bills.

US President Trump.

　　On the 27th of this month, the "New York Times" claimed that it had obtained Trump tax information for nearly 20 years.

According to the report, Trump paid zero federal income tax from 2000 to 2015.

In 2016 and 2017, only $750 of federal income tax was paid each year.

The report also said that Trump is facing losses and uses a variety of tax credit policy methods.

　　In this regard, Trump called it "fake news."

He stated that he "paid a lot of taxes" and said he would make his tax records public.

　　Biden and Trump will hold the first presidential debate in the 2020 U.S. election in Cleveland, Ohio on the evening of the 29th.

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