{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"sanders-tax-return-2018","category":"personal-finance","title":"2018 joint tax return: income and federal tax","date":"2019-04-15","period":"Tax year 2018","status":"Document verified","summary":"The archived joint return reports $566,421 in total income, $561,293 in adjusted gross income, and $145,840 in total federal tax. Separate publishing schedules distinguish gross receipts from net profit.","facts":[{"label":"Filing status","value":"Married filing jointly","note":"Bernard and Jane Sanders; Form 1040 filing-status field."},{"label":"Total income","value":"$566,421","note":"Form 1040 line 6, PDF p. 1."},{"label":"Adjusted gross income","value":"$561,293","note":"Form 1040 line 7, PDF p. 1."},{"label":"Total federal tax reported","value":"$145,840","note":"Form 1040 line 15, PDF p. 1; the lower half contains Form 1040 p. 2. This is the return’s total tax, not the withholding, estimated payments, refund, or balance due."},{"label":"Macmillan book royalties: gross / net","value":"$391,000 / $381,000","note":"Bernard Sanders Schedule C, PDF p. 14, Book Royalties Macmillan, lines 1 and 31; line 28 reports $10,000 of expenses."},{"label":"Verso book royalties: gross / net","value":"$1,810 / $1,810","note":"Bernard Sanders Schedule C, PDF p. 10, Book Royalties Verso, lines 1 and 31."},{"label":"Combined book receipts / net profit","value":"$392,810 / $382,810","note":"Calculated only from the two book Schedule C forms: $391,000 + $1,810 gross; $381,000 + $1,810 net."},{"label":"Music royalties: gross / net","value":"$110 / $110","note":"Separate Bernard Sanders Schedule C, PDF p. 12, lines 1 and 31. The $382,810 book net plus $110 music net equals Schedule 1 business income of $382,920."}],"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.","Publisher labels are those printed on the schedules; they do not prove publisher ownership, political backing, ultimate funding, book sales, or policy influence. No book title or contract allocation is inferred."],"sourceIds":["PF-TAX-2018"],"tags":["tax-return","joint-filing","income","federal-tax","2018","publishing","royalties","gross-vs-net"]},"sources":[{"id":"PF-TAX-2018","title":"Sanders 2018 joint tax return — archived public release","publisher":"Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy","url":"https://archive.org/download/5912456-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2018/5912456-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2018.pdf","documentDate":"2019-04-15","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"voluntarily_released_primary_document_archive","locator":"PDF p. 1 contains both Form 1040 pages; lines 6, 7 and 15; visually checked PDF pages 1, 2, 10, 12, 14","sha256":"7490fc4095d24abdca600bedd52997c73b0326186d1e434c514b45a22161487a","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"18-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 11:05:50; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912456-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2018.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript."}]}