New York Daily News: The Tea Party was out railing against taxes on Tax Day on Thursday, but it's a safe bet few of them paid as much as President Obama. Tax returns released by the White House show Obama's adjusted gross income was $5,505,409 in 2009 - mostly from best-selling book sales. On that, he owed $1,792,414 in federal taxes, or a third of his income, but overpaid by $8,287. The Obamas applied the refund to next year's bill.