Mitt Romney Taxes

More Than 10,000 Rich Households Didn't Pay Income Tax

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.29.2012

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Out of the 3.9 million households that reported an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or more in 2009, more than 10,000 households paid nothing in taxe...

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Romney To Pay More In Taxes?

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.25.2012

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Uncle Sam seems to be gearing up to take more tax dollars from Mitt Romney and his brothers in the private-equity fraternity. The Internal Revenue ...

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Audience Boos Question Posed To Romney

AP | JACK GILLUM | Posted 05.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — Do you remember what's on page 169 of your income tax return? Neither does Mitt Romney. At a town hall-style meeting Monday in Cle...

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Obama Campaign Tracks Romney's Offshore Accounts With Infographic

The Huffington Post | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 05.02.2012

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Where in the world is Mitt Romney's money? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a new webpage designed to answer that question a...

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What's Fair? Five (or Six) Principles of Tax Fairness

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.17.2012

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Jared Bernstein

The wealthy have been paying a larger share of federal income taxes not because their tax rates have gone up -- in fact, they've gone down. It's because they've been collecting the lion's share of the growth for decades.

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How to Predict When Mitt Romney Will Release His Tax Returns

Chris Kelly | Posted 04.16.2012

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Chris Kelly

To get on board with Mitt Romney, you have to hold two ideas in your head. 1) You should vote for him, because he's made a lot of money and 2) You must never, ever ask about his money.

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Despite Shaky Accusations, Mitt Gets Back On Point

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Did Vice President Joe Biden really call for a new global business tax on U.S. companies operating abroad? Could it be true that half of...

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Beer With Mitt

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.09.2012

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Emily Cohn

The '1 Percent' Tax Strategy For Rest Of Us

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Cohn | Posted 04.06.2012

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The 1 percent find ways to save on their taxes. Why can't you and I? A new website called TaxKilla.com says we can, and encourages the 99 percent t...

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Man Up America: It's Time for the Draft

Pat LaMarche | Posted 05.18.2012

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Pat LaMarche

It's evident that the economically challenged 99 percent don't just vote for elitists who won't pay their fair share financially but that they likewise elect representatives that won't require the citizenry to shoulder equally the human cost of war.

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Republicans: The Small Government Way to Bigger Deficits?

David Coates | Posted 05.08.2012

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David Coates

The claim that rapid budget cutting will bring down the federal deficit and open the route to sustained economic growth is both disingenuous in its content and dangerous in its consequences.

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Jason Linkins

Mitt Romney Gets Suddenly Squishy On Carried Interest

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2012

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Over at Business Insider, Linette Lopez catches 2012 presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on CNBC, sending messages on one of his favorite tax-breaks-for...

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How The Wealthy Game Their Taxes

Emily Cohn | Posted 03.08.2012

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Warren Buffett's secretary pays a higher tax rate than billionaire Warren Buffett. Mitt Romney paid a 13.9 percent tax rate in 2010--lower than many m...

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Romney: Peddling the Indefensible

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.30.2012

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Robert L. Borosage

Mitt Romney claims that he has a plan for "more jobs, less debt and smaller government." He also says that he has the "integrity" to "speak honestly with the American people." But his "plan" simply doesn't add up.

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Romney Calls For Major Cuts To Help Economy

AP | KASIE HUNT | Posted 04.23.2012

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MESA, Ariz. — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday called for 20 percent across-the-board cuts in personal income tax rates ...

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Zach Carter

Obama, Romney Propose Surprisingly Similar Corporate Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have begun a new form of competition: proposing corporate tax cut plans that they claim, wrongly,...

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Presidents' Day: A Look Back At How Much They Earned

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.17.2012

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The Republican presidential candidates -- particularly Mitt Romney -- have been under pressure to release their tax returns. The topic has gotten plen...

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Can a Businessman Run a Country?

Bill Gunderson | Posted 04.13.2012

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Bill Gunderson

The bottom line is this: What we have been doing has not been working. If a bunch of politicians can run the country into the ground, I feel pretty confident that it will take some businessmen to turn it around.

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WATCH: Rich Kids For Romney Say $360K Is NOTHING

Posted 01.31.2012

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First they announced their endorsement of Mitt Romney, then they weighed in on how much fun it is to fire people, and now they're back to put into per...

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More Than Half Of Americans Say Tax Capital Gains Like Work: Survey

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.31.2012

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Most Americans agree: The U.S. should alter the rules that allowed Mitt Romney to pay taxes at a lower rate than someone in the middle class. Sligh...

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The End of Romney, Part 2

John R. Talbott | Posted 03.29.2012

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John R. Talbott

The question is not whether or not what Romney did was legal. The question is, do we want a president who aggressively used arcane areas of the tax code to avoid and defer paying his fair share of taxes?

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Mitt Romney and the 1%

Gerald McEntee | Posted 03.28.2012

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Gerald McEntee

If they have their way, Mitt Romney and the wealthiest people in America won't have to release their tax returns. They won't even have to file.

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You Can Bet Romney Doesn't Stash Millions of Dollars in Cayman Islands to Work on Its Tan

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.28.2012

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Miles Mogulescu

There are many places in the world to safely park millions of dollars in assets. People don't seek out a P.O. Box in the Caymans to stash their cash to help their money get a tan. The do so to lower their taxes or to take advantage of bank secrecy.

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Mitt Romney's Marvelously Unburdened Income

Edward D. Kleinbard | Posted 03.28.2012

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Edward D. Kleinbard

A powerful case can be made that, if all the facts were known, the Romneys' true effective tax rate for 2010 might have been much lower than the 13.9 percent reported rate.

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Why Are Romney's Investments Taxed At A Lower Rate?

AP | By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 01.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Why do Mitt Romney and other wealthy investors pay lower taxes on the income they make from investments than they would if they earned t...

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