{"id":5820,"date":"2011-04-21T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:18:28","slug":"obamas-paid-over-450k-in-taxes-on-1-7-million-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5820","title":{"rendered":"Obamas Paid Over $450K In Taxes On $1.7 Million Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> and his wife,<strong> Michelle<\/strong>, reported income of $1.728 million for last year, much of it from the sale of the president&#8217;s pre-presidency books. They paid federal taxes totaling $453,770 after receiving a $12,334 refund.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the flocks of Americans filing their taxes near the end of the federal filing period, the <strong>Obamas<\/strong> made withholding and other payments to the Internal Revenue Service last year totaling $466,104. That was an overpayment, so they got their refund. The president and first lady reported donating $245,075 &#8212; about 14.2 percent of their adjusted gross income &#8212; to 36 different charities.<\/p>\n<p>The largest single gift was a contribution of $131,075 to the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that offers a scholarship fund for children of soldiers who die or are disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported income of $1.728 million for last year, much of it from the sale of the president&#8217;s pre-presidency books. They paid federal taxes totaling $453,770 after receiving a $12,334 refund. Joining the flocks of Americans filing their taxes near the end of the federal filing period, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}