As governor of Alaska, Palin collected per diems for scores of nights spent in her own home and working at a state office in Anchorage rather her office in faraway Juneau, the state capitol. The patterns varied, but the state paid her, on average, $890 a month, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the payments.
Although Palin and her husband paid 20 percent of their income in taxes last year, the per diems don't appear on their 2007 tax return.
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