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Author: Mark Banta

Ex-Mormon, CPA, and extraordinarily frustrated Republican.

Mitt Romney’s Funny Math

Mark Banta, September 24, 2012September 24, 2012

So, Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax return. The newspapers report that Mitt and Ann Romney engineered their tax return to show that he paid 14.1% of his income in taxes. The primary mechanism employed to engineer their tax return, according to the press reports, was to not claim all…

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