Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax bill comes to $6.2m (€4.7m) for the last two years, his campaign has released.
He paid about $3m in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments, placing him among the wealthiest of American taxpayers.
Mr Romney also gave nearly $3m to charity which helped lower his effective tax rate to a modest 14%, according to records his campaign released this morning.
About half of his charitable donations went to the Mormon Church.
For 2011, he will pay about $3.2m with an effective tax rate of about 15.4%, the campaign said.
Those returns have not yet been filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
The former Massachusetts governor had been under pressure in recent weeks to release his tax returns, with his Republican opponents casting him as a wealthy businessman who slashed jobs in the private sector.
Rival Newt Gingrich made public his returns on Saturday, showing he paid over $1m in income taxes at a tax rate of about 31%.
Mr Romney's campaign confirmed the details of his tax information after several news organisations saw a preview of the documents.
"You'll see my income, how much taxes I've paid, how much I've paid to charity" Mr Romney told last night’s debate in Tampa.
"I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don't think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes."
