Bush, who is campaigning to win the Republican nomination, has published 1,150 pages of tax returns covering three decades, twice the number of years of information provided by his father during his presidential campaign in 1988 and three times the nine years’ worth of tax information released by his brother in the 2000 campaign.

On his website, Bush says the aim of the release is to ‘show voters how I earned a living over the past three decades and how much of that living I had to give back to Uncle Sam’.

While arguing that ‘there are far too many documents here for anyone except the nerdiest accountant to enjoy reading’, Bush picks out some of the fiscal and tax highlights of a career which has included set up a real estate company, serving as governor of Florida and running a multinational consultancy firm.

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