WASHINGTON: Donald Trump paid around $38 million in taxes in 2005, the White House acknowledged late Tuesday, as a handful of elusive details about the president's tax status were leaked to the US media.
Trump has steadfastly refused to release his full tax returns, breaking with decades of tradition among presidential candidates of all political parties.
The leak -- a summary of one year's filing from more than a decade ago -- is a small but tantalizing glimpse into the mogul's tax history.
The White House confirmed the details just before David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and MSNBC said they would reveal the short filing.
The snapshot was broadly favorable to the White House and appeared to back up Trump's claim that he paid his fair share of taxes.
But the 2005 return showed amounts owed but, crucially, not sources of income that would confirm or repudiate questions about Trump's business ties.
"The documents show Trump and his wife Melania paying $5.3 million in regular federal income tax -- a rate of less than four percent," Johnston wrote in a post on the Daily Beast.
"However, the Trumps paid an additional $31 million in the so-called 'alternative minimum tax,' or AMT."
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