Period or event: Tax year 2016 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-tax-return-2016
The archived joint return reports $1,073,333 in total income, $1,062,626 in adjusted gross income, and $372,368 in total federal tax. Separate publishing schedules distinguish gross receipts from net profit.
What the source records
Filing status
Married filing jointlyBernard and Jane Sanders; Form 1040 filing-status field.
Total income
$1,073,333Form 1040 line 22, PDF p. 1.
Adjusted gross income
$1,062,626Form 1040 line 37, PDF p. 1.
Total federal tax reported
$372,368Form 1040 line 63, PDF p. 2. This is the return’s total tax, not the withholding, estimated payments, refund, or balance due.
Bernard Sanders book-writing gross receipts
$840,485Schedule C, PDF p. 9, Book Writing, line 1.
Bernard Sanders book-writing expenses
$43,627Schedule C, PDF p. 9, line 28.
Bernard Sanders book-writing net profit
$796,858Schedule C, PDF p. 9, line 31: gross receipts less expenses.
Other business net amounts
$2,521 recording artist; $156 commissioner serviceSeparate Schedule C pages 7 and 4, line 31. Together with book-writing net profit these sum to Form 1040 line 12, $799,535.
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.
The book-writing page does not identify individual books, contracts, royalty payers, or the split between advances and royalties. Its scan is degraded; the amount was visually checked and reconciles with Form 1040 business income.
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, 7, 9
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 11:05:02; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912455-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2016.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript.