Biden campaign begins selling 'I paid more income taxes than Donald Trump' stickers

One hundred packets sold on Democratic nominee’s online store total same income tax US president paid in 2016

Joe Biden’s campaign has begun selling stickers mocking Donald Trump for his tax records, following a New York Times report that found he had avoided paying income taxes over 10 years in the past two decades.

The revelations published on Sunday also reported as little as two income tax payments of $750 (£582) in 2016 and 2017, as the then-television personality entered the White House.

Within hours, the online store for Mr Trump’s opponent was selling merchandise that ridiculed the incumbent’s reported tax records.

Two vinyl stickers with the motto "I paid more in taxes than Donald Trump" became available to buy, with a price of $7.50 (£5.82) a packet.

That came as critics and opponents of the US president used Twitter to say they had paid more tax than he had.

Mr Trump was also the source of multiple trending topics on Monday morning, which included #VoteHimOut.

At $7.50 a sticker set, buying one hundred packets would amount to the same amount of money Mr Trump paid in federal income tax for 2016, when he was elected to the presidency, and again in 2017.

He has spent the past four years attempting to avoid releasing his tax records, all the while having told the Associated Press during his first campaign that “there’s nothing to learn from them”.

Facing those revelations on Sunday, just 36 days before the election, Mr Trump claimed the NYT’s report was “totally fake”.

His rival, the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, has not yet released a statement in response to the report, with the pair due to face each other on stage in the first televised presidential debate of the election on Tuesday night.