Democrat Michelle Nunn released five years of her tax records this week, following suit after her two Republican challengers for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat previously released theirs.
The federal tax filings from 2009 to 2013 showed that Nunn’s income ranged from a low of $191,288 in 2013, when she went on leave as CEO of the Points of Light Foundation to run for office, to a high of $346,161 in 2012.
That was the same year she paid her highest effective federal tax rate, at 23.5 percent after claiming $66,858 in deductions. Her lowest rates were 13.2 percent in 2010 and 13.6 percent in 2013.
Nunn claimed $66,858 and $66,288 in itemized deductions, respectively, those years.
The daughter of longtime U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn is the primary breadwinner in her home. She and her husband, Ron Martin, contributed $34,061 to charity in the past five years.
The Nunn campaign made the filings available at her Atlanta campaign office, providing only summaries from each year. Similar filings released earlier by the GOP challengers, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston and David Perdue, included the full documents.
Perdue has paid a 38 percent effective rate over 10 years, while Kingston’s rate fell between 13.76 percent and 16.88 percent for the five years he submitted.
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