U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who has made income inequality a top campaign theme, had taxable income of $205,271 in 2014, almost putting him in the top 5 percent of American earners, according to the release of his federal tax return on Friday.
That figure was still far below the millions earned by his main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in recent years.
Sanders and his wife, Jane, paid $27,653 in federal income taxes in 2014 on adjusted gross income of $205,271 — an effective tax rate of 13.5 percent. Their income was just below the $206,563 that census data show as the lower limit for the top 5 percent of U.S. households in 2014.