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confirms that they
paid $3,236,975 in federal income tax that year.
The Clintons claimed a $726,721 capital loss on their
2008 tax returns -- likely as a result of the financial crash -- and have carried forward the loss and claimed a $3,000 deduction in each subsequent year. The campaign says they
have paid an effective federal tax rate of between 25 percent and 38.2 percent every year since 2001.
This data is available because
the Clintons have released decades of tax returns, while Trump has shunned more than 50 years of precedent by refusing to release any tax information.