When did US presidential candidates start making their tax returns public?

Factual Questions
1

How long has this been going on? And even a decades worth? I can’t even remember hearing about this last election cycle which was pretty memorable.

2

Since 1967 when Mitt Romney’s father, George, ran for president.

His subsequent release of his federal tax returns – twelve years’ worth going back to his time as AMC head – was groundbreaking and established a precedent that many future presidential candidates would have to contend with.

3

That’s some high-grade irony there.

4

The best.

5

George Romney: One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show, and what mattered in personal finance was how a man conducted himself over the long haul. The reporter T. George Harris characterized George Romney’s position that way.

6

George Romney earned $129,674 AGI in 1955 and paid $45,651 in federal income taxes.

An effective tax rate of 35.2 percent.

http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/AEEC9CAC8F773DD7852579C20073FD36?OpenDocument

7

Sure, but that was when Communists were running the U.S. government. Thank God for Joe McCarthy!

8

HAH! Ok the thread was worth it just for that tidbit!