February
2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and MEGAN CHUCHMACH, ABC News

Romney’s Fortune Banked In Foreign Tax Haven

Mitt Romney is the poster child for everything that is wrong with a tax system that provides loopholes for plutocrats to pay lower tax rates than most Americans and hide vast amounts of wealth in offshore tax havens.

[ABC] Romney has used a variety of techniques to help minimize the taxes on his estimated $250 million fortune. In addition to paying the lower tax rate on his investment income, Romney has as much as $8 million invested in at least 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands registry. Another investment, which Romney reports as being worth between $5 million and $25 million, shows up on securities records as having been domiciled in the Caymans.

Mitt Romney has never known a meager income. He was a plutocrat while he was in his mother's womb. We know that Romney is currently worth an estimated $250 million dollars and enjoys a tax rate that is less than half what most Americans pay the IRS every April. The fact that he has avoided making his tax returns public shouldn't surprise anyone. 

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