10 Questions Romney Should Answer About His Taxes

[kentuck]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/21/893211/questions-romney-taxes/

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Here are 10 unanswered questions about Romney’s taxes:

1. After the election, when the subject of your tax returns is outside of the public glare, will you file an amended tax return to claim your full deduction of charitable contributions? Was the tax rate you reported for other years similarly manipulated?

2. Why was your 2011 income $7 million lower than you estimated it to be in January? How does someone overestimate their income by $7 million?

3. Financial disclosures show that you have as much as $82 million in your tax-deferred Individual Retirement Account, despite the fact that tax rules limited contributions into such accounts to $30,000 per year. Did you lowball the value of the assets you put into your IRA, as tax experts suspect? And did you do the same with gifts into your sons’ trusts?

4. What was the purpose of your Swiss bank account and the myriad offshore entities shown on your return, based in countries like the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, if not to avoid taxes?

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[BlueStreak]

1. No, those aren't the 10 most important questions. They didn't list the most obvious one.

Why can't we get anybody to ask the most obvious question?

This is getting ridiculous. It is a simple yes or no question. I am starting to think there is some sort of unwritten agreement between Romney and the press to not ask this question.

Mr. Romney, did you or anybody acting on your behalf, or on behalf of assets of Bain Capital ever take advantage of any IRS amnesty program with regard to Swiss bank accounts?

If the answer is no, then so be it, but as far as I know, this most obvious of questions has never even been asked of the candidate. What will it take to get somebody to ask this question?