Period or event: Tax year 2012 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-tax-return-2012
The archived joint return reports $280,954 in total income, $280,954 in adjusted gross income, and $45,107 in total federal tax.
What the source records
Filing status
Married filing jointlyBernard and Jane Sanders; Form 1040 filing-status field.
Total income
$280,954Form 1040 line 22, PDF p. 1.
Adjusted gross income
$280,954Form 1040 line 37, PDF p. 1.
Total federal tax reported
$45,107Form 1040 line 61, PDF p. 2. This is the return’s total tax, not the withholding, estimated payments, refund, or balance due.
Business loss reported
-$938Form 1040 line 12; Jane Sanders small antique business Schedule C, PDF p. 5, line 31. This is not identified as book income.
Scope & limitations
Joint-return income includes both spouses and is not Sanders-only income, campaign receipts, or net worth.
Archived voluntary release; not an IRS-certified transcript. It does not establish IRS acceptance, later amendments, or settlement of the reported tax.
Amounts are transcribed from the returned form; no tax-law compliance opinion is made.
Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy · voluntarily released primary document archive · Document date 2019-04-15 · Checked 2026-09-12
PDF pp. 1–2, Form 1040 lines 22, 37 and 61; visually checked PDF pages 1, 2, 5
16-page public-release file; original file MD5 matches Internet Archive metadata. Metadata dates the source document to 2019-04-15 and archive acquisition to 2019-11-14 11:11:53; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912460-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2012.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript.