And an ample pantry is probably something the Romneys will pay particular attention to.
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So the Romneys have already paid more than their fair share of tax there.
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Did the Romneys timely file the required disclosure forms to the Treasury Department (so-called FBAR reports)?
If so you have struggled with authenticity and might benefit from the Tale of Two Romneys.
When the Romneys' self-employment payroll tax is excluded, their effective income-tax rate is 13.9%.
The Romneys are living in Southern California now and he's kept a low profile since the election.
Previously, the Romney campaign had released an estimate of the Romneys' 2011 return.
Since 1990 there was no year in which the Romneys did not owe federal and state income taxes .
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The average person might assume the Romneys were able to keep 85.9% of everything they earned, which is simply not true.
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It is money the Romneys did not keep for themselves, so I am counting it with the money lost in taxes.
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The Romneys paid tax because they hold stocks and securities yielding dividends and interest, and because they sold assets generating capital gains.
Would they like to make more money so that they could enjoy the myriad offshore tax breaks the Romneys have apparently employed?
Finally, there's the puzzle of the Romneys' extraordinarily low effective tax rate.
If we taxed spending, in contrast, the Romneys and other really rich families would see their taxes increase in absolute and percent terms.
It's a good guess that the Romneys are spending a great deal more than the income they are showing on their tax returns.
Tea partiers might need a stint in political rehab to recover from the exhaustion induced by their long bender of serially supporting not-Romneys.
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The accountant letter shows that over the 20-year period, the Romneys donated an average of 13.45% of their adjusted gross income to charity.
Because these amounts represent money the Romneys never saw, I am adding them back into what was lost along with the taxes they paid.
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Such expenses, however, are in essence deductible from another American tax, and the largest single one facing the Romneys: the gift and estate tax.
The Romneys have, to date, given the church millions of dollars.
Did the Romneys avail themselves of any of these amnesty programs?
The real inequity shown by the Romneys' tax situation, after all, is measured by the taxes they pay as a percent of their spending or lifestyle.
One surprise in the returns: The Romneys' actual income and tax for last year appears to be significantly lower than the campaign estimated earlier this year.
Vickery, I did a lot of research on this incident due to my early interest in supporting the Romneys due to their life-long personal interest in horses.
Should the Romneys take up residence, no doubt the liquor cabinets will be among the first to go, soon followed by the tea caddy and the coffee pot.
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The complete return was delayed because investment information required to prepare it wasn't available by April 15, and the Romneys got an automatic extension from the Internal Revenue Service.
The top tax rate on corporate dividends, which the Romneys also receive, was 39.6% until the Bush tax cuts of 2001 began a gradual reduction in ordinary income rates.
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You show us really clearly what your america is, a double standard where Romney and Obama can say the same exact thing but Romneys words are Holy and Obamas are evil.
Much as I relish the idea of the Presidential race being decided by the candidates having their respective accountants engage in a 1040 smackdown, the fact that the Romneys extended and the Obamas did not does not reflect on either of the accountants.
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