There’s one couple in New Jersey who don’t have any problem paying the state’s crushing tax burden.
Tax returns released by Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife Tammy show the couple earned $6.8 million in income last year, according to reports.
Of that, the couple paid $2.2 million in state and federal taxes. The couple paid $203,502 in property taxes on their Middletown home.
The couple, who spent most of the year working on Murphy’s campaign for governor, didn’t report any salaries. Instead, the money was almost all from investments.
Murphy retired from Goldman Sachs in 2006.
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