2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Foundation files 4 years of revised tax returns
WASHINGTON (AP) The Clinton Foundation is revising tax returns for the tax years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The changes reflect millions of dollars in grants donated by foreign governments during the years that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton served as secretary of state.
Foundation officials said the Clinton family charity does not owe the U.S. Treasury any new taxes due to the changes. The officials also say that the new break-out for government grants during Clinton's tenure at the State Department totaling $15.6 million were previously included in the charity's total grants and contributions.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e0b842e177124989b7a935ea14bfd7e8/clinton-foundation-files-4-years-revised-tax-returns
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/19/us-usa-clinton-donations-idUSKBN0MF2FQ20150319
In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence.
At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than 200,000 donors and has continued to update it. But in a breach of the pledge, the charity's flagship health program, which spends more than all of the other foundation initiatives put together, stopped making the annual disclosure in 2010, Reuters has found.
In response to questions from Reuters, officials at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the foundation confirmed no complete list of donors to the Clintons' charities has been published since 2010. CHAI was spun off as a separate legal entity that year, but the officials acknowledged it still remains subject to the same disclosure agreement as the foundation.
The finding could renew scrutiny of Clinton's promises of transparency as she prepares to launch her widely expected bid for the White House in the coming weeks. Political opponents and transparency groups have criticized her in recent weeks for her decision first to use a private email address while she was secretary of state and then to delete thousands of emails she labeled private.
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At that time, she did not dispute the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's concerns that utter transparency was necessary to protect the integrity of the United States' diplomacy and foreign policy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-foundation-tax-forms_564ae72be4b08cda348a6239
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and an associated charity refiled tax returns for six years with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to amend their reporting of donations from foreign governments and other errors, the charities said on Monday.
The foundation refiled its Form 990 tax returns for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, while the Clinton Health Access Initiative refiled its returns for 2012 and 2013 after Reuters discovered errors in the forms earlier this year.
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MaggieD
(7,393 posts)HRC is so evil! LOL!
Vinca
(50,300 posts)Any idea what percentage of the loot goes out the door for bona fide charitable causes?
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azmom
(5,208 posts)is beyond the pale. It's infuriating that it is a democrat doing this.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Wonder what little gems will show up they are are trying to dampen before they are outed.
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)"Although the exhaustive review found several additional errors, our external tax reviewers informed us that the errors did not require us to amend our returns; There is no change in our bottom line numbers: assets, liabilities, and net assets; and we do not owe any taxes," Shalala wrote in a letter posted on the foundation's website.
"Our reviewers advised us the Foundation has no legal obligation to file amended returns, but that if we did file an amended return it would be important for us to correct errors found in the review."
"The newly filed 2014 return and amended returns for the previous three years break out speech revenue on a separate line and categorize it as a payment for a service, not a donation.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/clinton-foundation-refiles-tax-returns-215959#ixzz3rmOqJVvc
In other words, nothing to justify the smears.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)That they took income from speechifying and listed it as a donation? And we are to believe that was an error?
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)A donation from the person making the speech to the organization. As the article shows it doesn't change the bottom line of the total donations.
The question is why are the Hillary haters trying to make that into a big deal? Can you explain?
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)To be classified as a donation? When Sarah Palin gives a speech and gets money for it she be allowed to ssy it waz s donation?
I'm obviously missing something.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Mostly over on reddit these days.
R B Garr
(16,966 posts)I Googled and found some articles about his campaign fraud (seriously),
Why doesn't Sanders do any charitable work? Walk the walk and all that.
AzDar
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