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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has not released his full tax records from 2010, including key documentation connected to his Swiss bank account.
Although President Barack Obama and an increasing number of Republican politicians have called on Romney to release tax returns from years prior to 2010, the public criticism has so far failed to note that Romney has not disclosed all of his tax documents for 2010 itself -- the only year for which the GOP presidential nominee has presented any final tax forms.
Romney released his 2010 tax return in January of this year, a document that first informed voters about the existence of his Swiss bank account and financial activities in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. But people who own foreign bank accounts are required to file a separate document with the IRS that provides additional details on such overseas bank holdings, and Romney has not released that form to the public.
The Romney campaign did not respond to HuffPost's request to view the document.
Tax experts say it is almost certain that Romney did file the form, known as a Report on Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, or "FBAR" in accountant slang. The penalty for not filing an FBAR can be severe, and the IRS would have expected to receive the form since Romney listed the Swiss bank account on his tax return. Listing the account on his tax return and then failing to file the subsequent FBAR would have been asking for a hefty fine, and would probably have heightened IRS scrutiny of prior tax filings.
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malaise
(268,701 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)You really are an arrogant ass.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)Or is he exempt from those also?
siligut
(12,272 posts)It certainly would be justification for anyone else.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)I am really enjoying this primary season. First time in a long time.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Bain (Bane)
FBAR (FUBAR)
R-Money
It just continues to write itself.
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)And this fellow seems to like it hotter than hot - is my guess on why he is being pigheaded. Anyway he is a rePIGlican - BTW!
Skittles
(153,113 posts)methinks Mitt done stepped in it good
kentuck
(111,052 posts)He doesn't have to release it. That will be his excuse.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)I don't have offshore accounts, so I'm not versed in the ways of cheating your fellow taxpayers they way he does.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)I keep hearing these people on television say just own up to your mistakes, release and let your mistakes come out....THESE WERE NOT MISTAKES..... These were calculated risks and gambles in his monetary future that paid off. He got caught cheating...NOT MISTAKES
AllyCat
(16,145 posts)IOW-- he's a criminal.
Johnny2X2X
(18,972 posts)Mitt assures us that his people are currently working diligently to retroactively close that account in 2008. Nothing to see here.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)and finally, had to do it retroactively.
spanone
(135,792 posts)BamBamBane
(41 posts)What weasels (R).
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He's making the point that Swiss banks don't pay interest on Romney's type of account and thus there must be other things to be gained in hiding money in a Swiss bank. But what?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)kentuck
(111,052 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)They will no longer be able to be deluded and controlled by the "they only hate us because we're rich and they want us to give money to Welfare Queens!" excuse. This stuff is going to stick on the Republicans.
No wonder it seems that the republicans, for the first time, are NOT uniting behind him. I think that they're saying in backrooms "well, if we're going to dump him, we'd better get it done quick, so we have time to run someone else"
maindawg
(1,151 posts)the backrooms are all frieking out. Rmoney is toast
Johnny2X2X
(18,972 posts)There are at least the 1st rumors that Mitt would rather drop out of the race rather than reveal his tax returns. Someone posted a thread that he could drop out by weeks and and they were ridiculed on here, they may be right.
It's the Republicans that are leading the charge about his returns too. They want a chance to replace him.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)His ego will keep him convinced of his own invulnerability.
If he goes, it will be because the rest of the Republican vermin hook him off the stage.
If he goes under these conditions, he will be allowed some sort of fig leaf, of course, but if he falls, it will be Republican chainsaws that did it.
zellie
(437 posts)lying twit.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)So far, I've only heard Thom Hartmann mention this on the teevee.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)He is not POTUS material.
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malaise
(268,701 posts)this won't pass
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)rurallib
(62,382 posts)cause jesus it was a stupid thing to do.
say hi to rush for me when you share the oxy.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)We regret to inform you that your posting privileges are likely to be revoked.
I hate to be the one to tell you, but somebody had to do it.
Oh, by the way, I hope you like the bottom bunk in your FEMA Camp cell because right after election day the troops are gonna be coming.
malaise
(268,701 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)We need to see the originals pronto before Mitt releases one more page of his financial records. Scouting after all is the major issue in the campaign, not finance and economics.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He either did not file the FBAR form
OR
he intentionally did not release it.
One way or the other, he LIED.
catbyte
(34,335 posts)He's nothing but a lying sack of shit. What else is he hiding? I saw a clip of, I believe, Andrea Saul, and she had a real Moonie cult-like glaze/gaze to her eyes. It was spooky. Her whole schtick was that Romney "released over 500 pages of taxes" as if that was supposed to suffice and us "little people" should be satisfied because, after all, we are too stupid and unsophisticated to understand anything anyway. Just pat us on the head and move along.
Arrgh.
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Arent Luggage--HISS!
Blue Owl
(50,263 posts)n/t
Perfect!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Or, he could retroactively release his 2010 tax returns in 2009