http://www.efile.com/1040-federal-income-tax-forms-for-every-tax-year-and-tax-return-history/
The practice of releasing tax returns when running for office didn't become commonplace until the late 1960's, which is also when presidential candidates, and not just presidents, began to routinely release their income tax returns to the public. In the runup to the 1968 presidential election, George Romney, a governor of Michigan at the time, released 12 years of his tax returns from 1955-1966 after being pressed on the topic by reporters. This set the precedent for presidential candidates to release their tax returns and almost every president from Nixon onward has made their tax returns public. The only exception was Gerald Ford, who kept his tax returns private.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72097232.html
Hillary Clinton only presidential candidate to release full tax returns
As millions of Americans scramble to file their tax returns by Monday’s deadline, many are wondering what’s in the private tax returns of this year’s presidential candidates.
That’s an open question in the case of candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, neither of whom have disclosed years of tax returns.
Sanders released his 2014 tax return late Friday. It showed that he and his wife, Jane, earned $205,271 that year, largely from his $174,000 Senate salary and the Social Security benefits they both receive.
>snip<
Still, only Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has fully disclosed years worth of returns. Sanders has released an abbreviated version of his taxes for a single year. Trump hasn’t released anything, while his Republican challengers, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, have made only partial tax information public.
All told, the 2016 presidential campaign has been an abysmal one so far for tax transparency, according to tax experts and government watchdog groups.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
= new reply since forum marked as read
