Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz pressured Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns by releasing the first two pages of their recent tax filings on Saturday.
"Donald Trump owes it to the American people to be fully vetted, and that includes releasing his tax returns so the voters can see the full financial picture," Cruz said after releasing his returns, according to the Huffington Post.
"We're putting these out today to put pressure on Trump and the other candidates to release theirs," Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Conant said, according to the Associated Press, while making public portions of Rubio's 2010 through 2014 returns, adding to 10 years of tax documents that he has previously disclosed.
"It is time to stop the excuses. If Donald is embarrassed about his tax returns, it's up to the voters to assess the facts," said Cruz in a statement, according to CNN.
"If Marco wants to release the complete thing for the recent years, I'm happy to do so as well and I would certainly encourage Donald Trump to do it, but we just did it to match what the other candidates are doing," Cruz said while replying to reporters about why only tax summaries were released, reports CNN.
"We'll do the rest too. We just wanted to get it out there quickly so people could see the summaries," said Rubio, promising to release all the relevant information, according to CNN.
Trump meanwhile has claimed that he can't release his tax information as his returns are being audited by the IRS. This excuse has been refuted by the IRS which said that an audit in no way prevents a tax payer from disclosing his returns, reports the Huffington Press.
Cruz and his wife Heidi, an executive with Goldman Sachs, earned about $5 million from 2011 to 2014, and paid about $1.5 million in taxes, reports CNN.
Meanwhile Rubio's yearly income for 2010-2014 ranged from $183,826 to $938,963 while his taxes ranged from 9.4 percent in 2010 to 27.4 percent in 2012, reports the Huffington Post.
