US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle filed their income taxes, which show him earning $2.6 million in 2008 from the sale of his two autobiographical non-fiction books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams From My Father. The couple also earned about $200,000 in salaries and had a small amount of investment income. They paid $855,000 in federal taxes and gave $172,050 to charity, reports the Washington Post.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 16 April 2009 at 10:36 |
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