Mitt Romney to Release 2011 Tax Return

--> Mitt Romney to release 2011 tax returnMore information is coming out about Mitt Romney's finances: The Republican candidate for president will release his 2011 tax return this afternoon, posting it online at 3:00 pm.

According to Reuters, the Romney campaign says the candidate paid $1.936 million in taxes in 2011 on $13.697 million in income, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent.

Most of Romney's income came from investments; his effective tax rate was relatively low because capital gains are taxed less heavily than ordinary income. By comparison, President Barack Obama paid an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent in 2011.

Although the former Massachusetts governor continues to refuse to release multiple years of tax returns, The New York Times reports that Romney's lawyer "said on the campaign's Web site that the candidate would release a letter later Friday from his tax advisers providing a summary of his tax liability for a 20-year period from 1990 to 2009."

Over that 20 year period, Romney paid an average annual effective federal tax rate of 20.2 percent, the campaign said. The lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate paid by Romney during those 20 years was 13.66 percent -- a revelation presumably intended to counter speculation that Romney might have at some point paid a rate close to zero.

The campaign also said that the Romneys gave a little over $4 million to charity in 2011, but claimed a deduction of only $2.25 million of those contributions. As a memo from Romney trustee Brad Malt explains:

The Romneys' generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.

The Wall Street Journal has the full text of Malt's memo.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.


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Source: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/09/21/mitt-romney-to-release-2011-tax-return/

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