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Pence releases returns

But Trump still has not done so

INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump hasn’t publicity released his tax returns. The same can no longer be said of his running mate, Mike Pence.

The Republican vice presidential nominee and Indiana governor on Friday released a decade worth of returns, roughly a month after promising to do so. The campaign said Pence paid a state and federal tax rate that ranged between 10 percent and 16 percent over the past decade.

An analysis of just his federal taxes shows he paid an effective rate since 2006 that ranges between 6.4 and 12 percent, based on his family’s adjusted gross income.

Pence’s income topped out at $187,000 while he was still a member of Congress, but dropped to $113,000 last year. The family has donated 10 percent of their take-home pay to charity, the campaign said, which reflects an average 7.4 percent of their adjusted gross income.

Pence, speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., later lamented that politicians can come to Washington with modest means but “emerge as millionaires” by auctioning access and profiting off policies.

Major-party presidential nominees have publicly released their taxes since 1976, but Trump is the exception. He has said he is waiting for the conclusion of an audit.

Last month, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax return.

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