Bernie spouts off about the “Panama Papers”, but still hasn't released his own Tax Returns!!!

[Walk away]

I'm not inferring that Bernie is involved with tax evasion. But how does he have the nerve to talk about hidden tax issues when he is hiding his taxes?????

The Daily News in NYC will have a field day with this leading up to the NY primary.

[CalvinballPro]

1. Normally I'd love such irony. Not today.

Maybe he thinks he'll get away with it? IDK, but I hope the press isn't as naive as Sanders thinks they are.

[liberal N proud]

2. His hit jobs are pathetic

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Bernie Sanders has only released 2014

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

None of the back years - and nothing for 2015. But none of the candidates at the link released their 2015 yet that I can see.


Looks like Sanders is in the top 6% and received $4172 back from the IRS in 2015.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/

[Walk away]

4. So what is he hiding in 2015 and the years before 2014????

What is the problem??? Does anyone actually believe he doesn't have an accountant file his taxes???

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I honestly don't know what he is hiding if anything

But he needs to release a few years back. Wouldn't the people of Vermont want to know at some point?

[Iamaartist]

8. hiding Bernie lol

[BlueMTexpat]

7. We just mailed in our

own 2015 returns over the weekend. April 15 won't occur until next week.

It is unsurprising that no one has released 2015-related information yet. So I won'f slam anyone for that.

I can, however, be very unhappy about his general lack of transparency AND extremely unhappy about Bernie's lying about having released tax forms publicly when he has not.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. We did ours by january 30th this year

Already reinvested our return (some into a Roth IRA) so then we had to refile.

[George II]

20. Tax returns are actually not due until April 18 this year (April 15 is Emancipation Day)

I sent mine in about a week ago.

His "return" for 2014 is 2 pages, and 2 pages for Vermont.

Clinton's is 44 pages!

Bernie, where are the schedules? What's hidden in that $56,000 deduction number?

[BlueMTexpat]

23. Exactly!

The man who argues for transparency in everyone's dealings except for his own.

[Her Sister]

9. 2014 just the 1040 form

Not the full 2014 tax returns. Supplements/Attachments/Schedules A,B and C.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. I saw that

I really wonder why that is?

[Her Sister]

14. That's the important question! Weird!

Some people uncovered Wall Street Assets and also related to fracking!?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110790735

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Le me go read that

I'm starting to get this larnin' thing down.

[George II]

16. To be fair (why, you ask? I don't know!) all candidates' tax returns for 2015 aren't due...

...for another two weeks.

But he certainly can release his for 2013 and before. Why hasn't he?

[JustAnotherGen]

17. I wish I knew

*sniff*

[DemonGoddess]

21. He's only released the SUMMARIES

where are the schedules which show what you make and how you make it? The schedules which show how you calculate your deductions?

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Hmmm . . .

That's kind of funny eh? I wonder - when he will release them?

The top 6% of income earners can be a funny bunch.

[DemonGoddess]

26. I can send my taxes to anyone who wants 'em with a click in to an email

INCLUDING the attached schedules for both federal and state.

[JustAnotherGen]

27. I could too!

Going back to 2007.

[Mika]

5. He must be hiding yuuuuge speaking fees to Wall Street corps.

He's probably raked in over a hundred million fromthose cretins for the last decade.

[Walk away]

12. Or maybe he just never donates a penny to charity even though he is in the top 6%...

thanks to our tax dollars. We already know he is incapable of earning any money in the private sector. But what are his investments like. Is he earning interests from Fossil Fuel companies. Does he have investments through Wall Street banks?

And why can't he release his taxes for the past decade? What is he afraid of??? And doesn't this disqualify him from even discussing a tax scandal? Maybe he should come clean before he calls anyone else dirty!

[George II]

19. He has $56,000 in "deductions" even though he doesn't have a mortgage. That's a lot....

...of deductions!

[Autumn Colors]

11. and here I thought the deadline for 2015 taxes was April 15th ....

.... 10 more days left before the deadline to file one's taxes with the IRS.

Doubtful about your statement about the NY Daily News. It's pretty evident that they don't like Hillary and why would they even hound Bernie about taxes before the IRS filing date for 2015 taxes has even passed?

Gimme a break!

PS: This (native) New Yorker predicts your candidate loses New York State to an embarrassing degree.

[Walk away]

18. Really? What about 2008? 2009? 2010?...all the way thru 2013 and full disclosure of 2014???

And will he disclose 2015 on April 15th? I doubt it. Don't hold your breath about the NYS primaries. Only Democrats can vote and Bernie couldn't win a closed state if his life depended on it.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. What about the fact that Bernie SAID

he had released previous tax returns when he had NOT?

I'm not one of those excited about the 2015 taxes. As you point out, the filing date is still in the future. But as someone who has a genuinely long list of deductions that STILL don't total anywhere near the $56,000+ that Bernie claims, I'd like to know more about what those deductions are. I'll allow that they are likely legitimate but why not tell us? Especially when he holds others to a standard that he is apparently NOT willing to meet.

I'm not a native New Yorker. But I believe that your prediction is overly optimistic for your candidate, especially now that there is a debate scheduled.

Hillary has so far demonstrated superb command of the issues in every one of these debates and I expect her to do more of the same. Bernie is very fuzzy on practical details for implementing his ideas. That is becoming clearer to more undecideds as the time goes on.

And New York runs a closed primary.

[Tanuki]

22. Strange that he would have someone under investigation for bank fraud

doing his taxes....

[Thinkingabout]

25. Wonder if he included the Carribeantrust fund he is trying to cover up. He rants about

corporations not paying their fair share, he needs to stop pandering.

[Walk away]

28. $56,000.00 in deductions???? And what about the years before 2014? What is he deducting?

This is just the kind of thing that New Yorkers have a field day with!

[Tanuki]

30. Well, Jane was the one doing the tax returns. Maybe she

was just as "creative" with the family finances as she was with Burlington College's before she got booted out.

[4now]

31. I wonder why he is refusing to release his hidden tax returns

and why he is trying to blame his wife?