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Gov. Polis Releases 2021 Tax Return Information Following Republican Opponent's Lead
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his husband had an adjusted gross income of about $734,000 in 2021, according to a tax return cover sheet.
October 31, 2022
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his husband had an adjusted gross income of about $734,000 in 2021, according to a tax return cover sheet released by his campaign over the weekend.
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Polis, the Democratic incumbent running for reelection, released the single year of tax returns after his Republican opponent, Heidi Ganahl, released three years of hers last week.
Polis did not release tax return information during his first bid for governor in 2018, and neither did his Republican opponent.
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Polis and his husband earned close to $1 million in dividends in 2021, which indicates a vast holding of various stock investments. They reported about $81,000 in wages and salaries.
“Governor Polis’s finances have been well vetted over the years as an elected official and the Governor’s disclosures to this point offer far greater detail than any information his opponent has ever made public,” campaign spokesperson Amber Miller wrote in an email. “He released taxes before running for Congress, and while serving as a member of Congress for a decade, he filed comprehensive financial disclosures which contained key information about his finances, including the stocks he owns, transactions, the businesses he was invested in, gifts, paid travel, and other financial data.”
His net worth is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. "In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Polis paid nothing in federal income tax by using various loopholes," according to reporting from ProPublica. His team maintained in a response to that reporting that Polis has always paid the taxes he owes.
Polis has poured over $11 million of his own money into his reelection campaign through Oct. 12. Ganahl has spent close to $2 million of her own money.
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