Period or event: Tax year 2017 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-tax-return-2017
The archived joint return reports $1,150,891 in total income, $1,131,925 in adjusted gross income, and $343,882 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
$1,150,891Form 1040 line 22, PDF p. 1.
Adjusted gross income
$1,131,925Form 1040 line 37, PDF p. 1.
Total federal tax reported
$343,882Form 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-author gross receipts
$855,631Schedule C, PDF p. 5, line 1.
Bernard Sanders book-author expenses
$147Schedule C, PDF p. 5, line 28.
Bernard Sanders book-author net profit
$855,484Schedule C, PDF p. 5, line 31.
Jane Sanders book-author gross receipts / net profit
$106,250 / $106,250Separate Schedule C, PDF p. 7, lines 1 and 31. This is spouse income and must not be attributed to Bernard alone.
Other business net income
$50Jane Sanders VEDA Commissioner Schedule C, PDF p. 9, line 31. The three business net amounts sum to Form 1040 line 12, $961,784.
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-author schedules do not name publishers or contracts or establish which receipts were advances versus royalties. Separate spouse income is preserved.
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, 5, 7, 9
21-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 11:16:05; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912457-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2017.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript.