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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both promised to release their tax returns this weekend. | Getty Cruz releases partial tax returns

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz released portions of his tax returns on Saturday — a day later than promised — and continued hammering rival Donald Trump for not disclosing his own IRS payments.

For 2011 to 2014, Cruz’s campaign released two pages of tax returns for each year. The documents, like those released earlier Saturday by fellow GOP contender Sen. Marco Rubio — don’t reveal many details like which tax breaks he claimed or how much he gave to charity.

In 2014, Cruz paid 32.2 percent tax rate on $1.2 million of income, his campaign said. Cruz’s income was relatively steady for the last four years, ranging between $1.7 million in 2011 to $970,193 in 2013.

Cruz filed jointly with his wife Heidi. While their income totals were relatively stable from year to year, their sources of income fluctuated. The majority of their income came from wages in 2014 and 2013. But they reported about $1 million in other sources of income for 2012 and 2011.



When he was running for Senate in 2012, Cruz released full copies of his tax returns for 2006 to 2010. In 2010, he and his wife reported $2 million in income, up from $347,716 in 2006.



Cruz used his disclosures to pressure Trump to release his tax returns. Trump has refused, saying he is being audited.

“Trump owes it to the American people to be fully vetted, and that includes releasing his tax returns so the voters can see the full financial picture,” Cruz said in a statement. "If the audits reveal tax irregularities - or, even worse, tax fraud — then the primary voters deserve to know that before the primary, not after."

Rubio's returns were also scant on details.

Rubio’s returns showed he paid a 23.5 percent tax rate on $335,561 in income in 2014. And the first two pages of each of his last five returns show the Florida senator’s income has varied widely, from as little as $183,826 in 2010 to $929,439 in 2012, when he paid an effective tax rate of about 30 percent.