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SANTA FE – Two of the four candidates for governor in New Mexico have provided their tax returns in response to a request from a newspaper.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that two Democrats – businessman Jeff Apodaca and state Sen. Joseph Cervantes – agreed to the newspaper’s request to provide their tax returns.

But Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham and Republican Steve Pearce declined to provide tax returns and instead offered the documents they file as members of Congress, which don’t provide as much detail.

The newspaper asked each campaign to provide within one week personal income tax returns filed in 2017 and 2018.

Cervantes released six pages of tax returns showing he and his wife paid $163,000 in federal taxes and $26,855 in state taxes for 2016. But the couple redacted their income. Cervantes added that his 2017 return hasn’t yet been filed, because he applied for an extension.

Apodaca was the only candidate to release even one year of his personal income tax returns in full. The Albuquerque businessman got an extension for 2017.