The Romney campaign says it is finally going to release his 2011 tax returns, as he has been promising for awhile. The campaign announcement  about the release was accompanied by some basic facts about what is in them. For example, Romney paid an effective tax rate of only 14.1 percent in 2011. In addition to [...]

Apparently to truly know if someone is acceptable for the very important job of Vice President it requires examining their tax returns for the past decade. From the Daily Beast: As part of its vetting, the Romney campaign required at least some of the candidates on the short list—including the eventual winner of the GOP [...]

Now that Mitt Romney is claiming he paid at least 13 percent in taxes ever year but still refusing to release more returns, it has given the Obama campaign an opening to keep up pressure on the issue. The latest move by the Obama team to keep the issue in the news is to offer [...]

Mitt Romney clearly wants the issue of his tax returns to go away.  At the same time he adamantly refuses to do the one thing that would make the issue go away: release more returns. So Romney’s newest strange attempt to get the media to drop the issue without him actually providing any real transparency [...]

If the Romney campaign thought the naming of a running mate would cause the media to move on from the issue of Romney’s tax returns, they were sadly mistaken.  As long as Romney refuses to release more than what has only been a single incomplete tax return, the issue will hound him. It will be [...]

Apparently the Romney campaign thinks they can’t responsibly select the right person who might become the next Vice President of the United States without first getting a lot of information about them, including multiple years of their tax returns. According to Rep. Paul Ryan in a interview with CBS News, the Romney campaign made him [...]

The American people are strongly in agreement that Mitt Romney should release more tax returns to give the voters a better sense of his financial behavior over the years. According to a New CNN/ORC poll, by almost a two to one margin, Americans think he should release more than just the two years he has [...]

As long as Mitt Romney doesn’t release more than one incomplete year of tax returns and allows wild speculation to grow about what he is hiding, the issue will continue to dog him. Once again a reporter found a creative new way to highlight Romney’s bizarre continued refusal to release more information. From a Josh [...]

Senate Majority Harry Reid made waves when he claimed a source connected to Bain Capital informed him it is likely Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for several years while at Bain. We don’t know if this is true. There is probably no legal way even for Reid to prove it since Mitt Romney refuses to [...]

Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made news by claiming an unnamed third party connected to Bain Capital told him it is likely Mitt Romney payed almost no taxes for years. From Huffington Post: Saying he had “no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy,” Reid sat up in his chair a bit before [...]