Period or event: Tax year 2015 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-tax-return-2015
The archived joint return reports $240,622 in total income, $240,610 in adjusted gross income, and $35,868 in total federal tax.
What the source records
Filing status
Married filing jointlyBernard and Jane Sanders; Form 1040 filing-status field.
Total income
$240,622Form 1040 line 22, PDF p. 1.
Adjusted gross income
$240,610Form 1040 line 37, PDF p. 1.
Total federal tax reported
$35,868Form 1040 line 63, PDF p. 2. This is the return’s total tax, not the withholding, estimated payments, refund, or balance due.
AGI reconciliation
$240,622 − $12 = $240,610Form 1040 lines 22, 36 and 37; total income and AGI must not be interchanged.
Business net income reported
$900Form 1040 line 12; Schedule C-EZ, PDF p. 4, describes VEDA Commissioner service, not book publishing.
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.
Some contemporary summaries use $240,622 as AGI; the archived form labels that total income and reports AGI of $240,610.
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 63; visually checked PDF pages 1, 2, 4
10-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 11:03:53; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912461-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2015.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript.