Mike Pence said he is filing his tax returns to make them available to the public. | AP Photo Pence says his tax returns will be a 'quick read'

Mike Pence says he is filing his tax returns and will make them available to the public, even as his running mate Donald Trump refuses to do so.

"When my forms are filed and when my tax returns are released it’s going to be a quick read," the Republican vice presidential nominee said Saturday on WABC Radio's "Election Central with Rita Cosby." "The Pences have not become more wealthy as a result of sixteen years in public service. There's been a lot of sacrifices, we're a middle class family, and it’s been a tremendous honor to serve as I am as Governor of Indiana, and my years in the Congress, and we'll look forward to making all that information available."


Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has refused to release his tax returns, citing an IRS audit and advice of his lawyers, despite the IRS having no rule preventing someone under audit from releasing their returns.

Pence's comments come a day after the Democratic ticket released their tax returns, a move that was calculated to add pressure on Trump to do the same.

Hillary Clinton released her 2015 income tax return, which showed the Clintons earned more than $10 million that year. Ten years of Tim Kaine's tax returns were also released by Clinton's campaign.

"Well I just think, you know, it is breathtaking to see the way the Clintons throughout the last, you know, quarter century, have pursued a career in public life, but done quite well in private life, and I think that it, it makes a lot of her class warfare rhetoric in her speech yesterday in Michigan ring hollow," Pence said Saturday.