President Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday that he had paid $37 million in taxes in 2005 while raking in more than $150 million in income.

The White House made the announcement shortly after MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced on Twitter that the network had obtained two pages of the 2005 returns.

A White House statement claimed that Trump, as the head of his real estate empire, had a responsibility “to pay no more taxes than legally required.”

Trump previously refused to release any tax information, claiming that he could not do so because he is under audit.

Maddow said on the show that she received the documents from investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who said they appeared unexpectedly in his mailbox.

The documents showed that Trump earned $153 million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes in 2005, paying a roughly 25 percent effective tax.

The pages from Trump’s federal tax return show the then-real estate mogul also reported a business loss of $103 million that year, although the documents don’t provide detail.

The forms show that Trump paid an effective tax rate of 24.5 percent, a figure well above the roughly 10 percent the average American taxpayer forks over each year, but below the 27.4 percent that taxpayers earning $1 million a year average, according to data from the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

Supporters of the president down played the news, with Donald Trump Jr. gleefully tweeting about the documents.

“Thank you Rachel Maddow for proving to your Trump hating followers how successful [Donald Trump] is & that he paid $40mm in taxes!” he wrote.

With Post wires