Kamala Harris has $2M income in tax return

She says transparency contrasts with Trump

Sen. Kamala Harris joined the ranks of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who shared their tax returns, releasing 15 years of filing Sunday.

The returns date back to her tenure as the district attorney for San Francisco and when her total income of $144,000 consisted almost entirely of her salary.

The California Democrat’s income jumped substantially after her marriage to attorney Douglas Emhoff. The couple began filing jointly in 2014 and showed a total income of more than $2 million for 2018. She and Emhoff paid more than $2.2 million in taxes over the past five years with an average effective tax rate of more than 32%. Most of the money comes from Emhoff’s practice. He reported more than $1 million in income in each of their joint returns.

None of Harris’ primary opponents has released as many years of returns, which the Harris campaign said makes “her the most transparent candidate in the field when it comes to information about her personal finances.”

Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders said he will release 10 years of returns Monday.

Democrats have derided President Donald Trump’s refusal to make his tax returns public. Since the 2016 campaign, Trump has said he cannot share them because he is under audit, even though IRS officials said being under audit would not prevent disclosure.

Harris’ campaign said Sunday that the release of her tax returns “is a stark contrast with President Trump” and that she “supports congressional legislation requiring a president’s tax returns to be made public.”