If you had some proof that he had holdings he didn't pay tax on when he should have, you'd get a result.

You won't get a bite based on suspicion, sorry.

The IRS gets tons of letters like this every year, many of them from 'wronged' spouses who have been dumped by their worse half for someone new.

They won't move without proof.

...this is a multi-millionaire with lots of connections. No one wants to be the agent in charge of investigating Romney. No one.

That's why I didn't send it to t IRS where the informant could get up 30% of the retrieved taxes.

The OP is meant both to keep the returns in our minds and hearts as well as to air my strong suspicions which seem more and more likely as his refusal drones on.

(I hope we don't forget the issue of his withheld returns. It is probably one of the best arrows in our quiver.)

returns the campaign reviewed before choosing the guy. Count on it.

That's what he's probably covering up.

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profoundly damaging: say he claimed an exemption for several years for a child born out of wed-lock which he is supporting. It may be none of our business. Perhaps the child was not fathered by Romney but by an associate at Bain who cannot support him or her for personal reasons. This might cast Mitt in a good light, but expose the father. He would be seen as noble for several reasons, especially for not opening the case which might reveal the actual father (news media digging, etc.)

But it's more likely that a legal return might reveal an untoward personal issue of Romney's that the voters should know about.

Of course, he might be protecting a family member as well.

At any rate, we should never stop asking. Remember, even Republicans have said that his stonewalling might be more damaging than any revelation in the returns. (Of course that was the last two weeks before it dawned on them that there might be something terribly damaging in the returns.)

So here at DU let's keep asking for his release of the forms.


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Yes!!

This issue has become a splinter under the great (GOP) elephant's fingernail and it's rotting fast. You can smell the frustration in the air that this (and other) issues just won't go away.

Keep it up and do not listen to anyone who tells us to shut-up, and there will be many.

about filing a FUBAR form - that is, for those who hold assets outside the US in an amount equal to or greater than $10,000, federal law mandates that such individual file a special form with the IRS informing the agency of such assets. The amnesty was an exception in light of a new accord between the US and Switzerland - that if such outlaws agreed to come forward voluntarily and pay back taxes and penalties, they would not be prosecuted criminally, and it would thenceforth be essentially forgiven.

Obviously, if you held your assets with a bank on Mars, the IRS would only find out if YOU told them. The situation in Switzerland was, until recently, that it was ILLEGAL for banks to divulge such account information to ANY third party without the accountholder's consent. So, essentially the same thing.

have very secretive administration.

(That might be another good argument for transparency on his returns.)

.. as opposed to Romney's constant lies.