The Washington Post reports presidential candidate Mitt Romney released copies of recent tax returns Tuesday. None of his income came from wages and most of it was in the form of profits derived from investments in stocks and dividends from interest earned.
Here's a look at Romney's massive tax return, by the numbers.
550: Pages of Romney's returns released to the media. He released pages from his 2010 return and a partial look at estimates for 2011. The Washington Post got an early release version of the documents the day before other media outlets.
13.9: Percent of Romney's effective tax rate he paid in 2010. The rate went up to 15.4 percent in 2011.
42.6 million: Dollars Romney and his wife earned in 2010 and 2011. The couple made $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million in 2011.
7 million: Dollars the Romneys gave to charitable organizations the past two years. That includes $4.1 million to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Romney gave just more than 16 percent of his income to charities in 2010 and 2011, including about 10 percent to his church.
.006: Top percentage Romney falls into in terms of the highest earning taxpayers. NPR reports that in 2009, 8.274 taxpayers out of 140 million returns listed incomes of greater than $10 million. Since Romney's wealth was above $20 million in the past two years, he is among the highest earning Americans.
72,536: Pages the U.S. tax code is, according to CBS News. The report states Romney's tax returns included such minutiae as a $1 tax credit and a $2 taxable dividend payment. He also saw a $14 addition to his taxable income, among all of his huge amounts of wealth accumulated in the past two years.
25: Average tax rate paid by millionaires. Because Romney's income was from investments, his tax rate was lower.
3 million: Dollars Romney had in a bank account in Switzerland. He also maintained assets in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Ireland, according to the New York Times.
100,000: Dollars donated to the presidential library of George W. Bush in Dallas. It was the second-largest donation after Romney's money given to the Mormon church.
William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics. Born in St. Louis, Browning is active in local politics and served as a campaign volunteer for President Barack Obama and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.
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