NY Post did get a copy of the 2011 tax return of Sharpton's non-profit. It shows a nice salary:
and other pages mentioned how he was provided 1st class airline seats, or charter air travel, and other bennies.
I would suspect his salary as a host on MSNBC to be even more than that.
But hard to guess at his total, or how much he makes giving paid speeches, appearances, etc. and then to try and mesh that income guess with his net worth, so tied up in legal battles, tax issues, ownership hidden in non-profits or other incorporated entities - guessing at it is really futile. Just think about how much guessing you'd have to do to figure out your brother's or cousin's self worth, let alone a celebrity. That is why those websites like celebritynetworth.com therichest.com, who make guesses at someone's net worth, are so worthless.
NY Times reported last month he owed $4 mil in taxes, but many analysts dispute the certainty of such a figure, from snopes.com:
Ultimately, Al Sharpton confirmed he owes or has owed tax debts to federal and state authorities at some point, but the actual balance of those debts is information to which the news media are not directly privy as tax agencies at both the state and federal level are unable to confirm or deny the actual amounts in question, the rate at which the debt was repaid or is being repaid, and whether or not Sharpton currently owes money to
either government tax agency. (The reported size of his tax debt appears to have been inferred, in part or in whole, from the total of the liens taken out against him, which may or may not be an accurate gauge of the overall size of his debt.)
Sharpton's role at the helm of more than one entity (both for-profit and non-profit organizations) has created further ambiguity regarding which reported sums constitute personal tax debts and which would fall under the umbrella of business tax matters. Sharpton (along with the majority of businessmen) generally delegate taxes, payroll, and related matters to accountants or other financial advisors, so how involved Sharpton might have been with unpaid business taxes is also uncertain. While Sharpton certainly has owed significant amounts of delinquent taxes, it's difficult to verify at this point whether his debts are as high as reported or whether the stated amounts are current.
Sharpton has moved in more powerful circles of late, and has a bigger platform with that TV show and appearances at recent events. He has parlayed this into a surge in donations (mostly corporate of course) to his organization. He will get his tax problems (personal and business) taken care of pretty quickly, at this rate.
Sharpton has included stuff in recent speeches to broaden his appeal to a wider circle of donors, even denouncing some activities of his fellow blacks - this from his Ferguson speech:
Blackness was never surrendering our pursuit of excellence. It was when it was against the law to go to some schools, we built black colleges and learned anyhow. When we couldn't go downtown to church we built our own AME church, and our church of God and Christ. We never surrendered, we never gave up, and now we get to the 21st century, we get to where we got some positions of power. And you decide it ain't black no more to be successful. Now you wanna be a nigga and call your woman a ho, you lost where you come from.
We've got to clean up our community so we can clean up the United States of America! Rev. Al, you don't understand what they doin' to us. I understand. But I understand that nobody gonna help us if we don't help ourselves. Sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves won't solve our problems. Sitting around having ghetto pity parties rather than organizing and strategizing and putting our differences aside. Yes, we got young and old. Yes, we got things that we don't like about each other, but it's bigger than our egos. It's bigger than everybody. We need everybody because I'm gonna tell you, I don't care how much money you got, I don't care what position you hold. I don't care how much education you got. If we can't protect a child walking down the street in Ferguson, and protect him, and bring justice, all you got don't matter to nobody but you!
