Every President since Nixon has released his tax returns - except for Ford, who released a summary about his federal taxes - until the presidency of Donald Trump.
Richard Nixon (R) Vice President: 1953 – 1961 President: 1969 – 1974
Gerald Ford (R) Vice President: 1973 – 1974 President: 1974 – 1977
Ford did not release his returns, but he did release summary data about his federal taxes for the years between 1966 and 1975. Jimmy Carter (D) Governor: 1971 – 1975 President: 1977 – 1981
Ronald Regan (R) Governor: 1967 – 1975 President: 1981 – 1989
George H.W. Bush (R) Vice President: 1981 – 1989 President: 1989 – 1993
Al Gore (D)
Senator: 1985 – 1993
Vice President: 1993 –2001
Bill Clinton (D) Governor: 1983 – 1992 President: 1993 – 2001
Dick Cheney (R) Vice President: 2001 - 2009
George W. Bush (R) Governor: 1995 – 2000 President: 2001 – 2009
Sarah Palin (R) Governor: 2006 – 2009
John McCain (R)
Senator: 1987 – 2018
Paul Ryan (R)
Representative: 1999 – 2019
Speaker of the House: 2015 – 2019
Mitt Romney (R) Governor: 2003 – 2007 Senator: 2019 -
Joe Biden (D) Senator: 1973 – 2009 Vice President: 2009 – 2017 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Barack Obama (D) Senator: 2005 – 2008 President: 2009 – January 20, 2017
Tim Kaine (D) Governor: 2006 -2010 Senator: 2013 -
Hillary Clinton (D) Senator: 2001 – 2009 Secretary of State: 2009 – 2013
Kamala Harris (D) Senator: 2017-
Joe Biden (D) Senator: 1973 – 2009 Vice President: 2009 – 2017
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Mike Pence (R) Governor: 2013 – 2017 Vice President: 2017-
[Pence has not made any of his tax returns public since he became vice president]
Donald Trump (R)
President: 2017-
Leaked partial tax returns: 2005
Sept 26, 2016: Trump promised to disclose his full tax returns to the public during this first debate with Hillary Clinton.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, we're talking about the burden that Americans have to pay, yet you have not released your tax returns. And the reason nominees have released their returns for decades is so that voters will know if their potential president owes money to -- who he owes it to and any business conflicts. Don't Americans have a right to know if there are any conflicts of interest?
TRUMP: I don't mind releasing -- I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released. And -- as soon as the audit's finished, it will be released.
March 7, 2016: Trump released a letter from his tax attorneys that confirmed he was under audit. But the letter also said the IRS finished reviewing Trump's taxes from 2002 through 2008. Trump did not release his tax returns from those years, even though the audits were over.
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