ProPublica revealed he didn’t pay federal income tax in 2013, 2104 and 2015, and between the years from 2010 to 2018, his overall rate was just 8.2 percent — less than half of the 19 percent paid by a worker making $45,000 in 2018.This is even though Polis is a centimillionaire, having earned hundreds of millions of dollars as a tech entrepreneur.
The Democratic governor previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019. While in Congress, he was named the third-richest member in the House.The revelations about Polis are contained in a trove of tax information obtained by the media outlet that covers thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, according to ProPublica.The Colorado governor is one of several ultrarich.