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Rockefeller's first tax return reported a total income of $1,247,252.65 for 1894 - at a time when the annual income of most Americans was less than $1,000. That total included $40,577.51 in "gross receipts, credits, earnings, and gains from any business"; $30,000 in "income from any profession, trade, or other employment"; $284,601.67 from interest "upon all notes, mortgages, or other forms of indebtedness bearing interest"; $739,626.63 "from interest or coupons paid or accrued on any bonds"; $147,130.07 from dividends and interest "on the stock, capital, or deposits of any corporation"; and $5,316.77 as the "income of wife or minor children."

Rockefeller claimed deductions of $499,183.26 - including a $4,000 standard deduction, $87,171.52 in interest, $20,317.11 in state taxes, $42,679.75 in business expenses, $143,672.75 in business losses and $201,344 in bad debt.

The return was filed in March 1895. Taxed at a rate of 2 percent, the richest man in the world paid $14,961.39 in federal income tax. His return totaled four pages in length.

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