US President Donald Trump paid $38m (£31m) in tax on more than $150m (£123m) income in 2005, a leaked partial tax return shows. Read more stories below...
The
two pages of tax return, revealed by US TV network MSNBC, also showed
he wrote off $103m in losses. It gave no details on income sources.
The White House said publishing the tax return was against the law.
Mr Trump refused to release his tax returns during the election campaign, breaking with a long-held tradition.
On Tuesday evening, MSNBC announced that it had a copy of one of Mr Trump's tax returns, dating from 2005.
The details were revealed on a show later that night, anchored by journalist Rachel Maddow.
On Wednesday morning, President Trump slammed Mr Cay Johnston on
Twitter, and cast doubt on the claim that the papers came unsolicited
through the post.
According to Trump, he says "does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, "went to his mailbox" and found my tax returns?"
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