Fresh leak shows Trump's US$38m tax bill in 2005

Washington

DONALD Trump paid around US$38 million in taxes in 2005, the White House acknowledged late on Tuesday, as a handful of elusive details about the president's tax status were leaked to the US media.

Mr Trump has steadfastly refused to release his full tax returns, breaking with decades of tradition among presidential candidates of all political parties.

The leak - a summary of one year's filing from more than a decade ago - is a small but tantalising glimpse into the mogul's tax history.

The White House confirmed the details just before David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and MSNBC said that they would reveal the short filin…