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TomClash

(11,344 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 11:00 AM Aug 2012

Come on, Governor Romney, dozens of federal and state agencies can review your tax returns

Why can't the people you are asking to vote for you look at those returns?

Federal law covering disclosure of tax returns is located at 26 U.S.C. 6103. If you can't sleep tonight, you can read it here -

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103

The laundry list of exceptions to the privacy of tax returns is very long - almost every state tax and law enforcement agency can access them. The Chairmen of the Senate Finance, Joint Taxation and House Ways and Means Committees can review them in closed session. Plus there are many other exceptions to tax return confidentiality.

You won't release them to the American people even though you want them to vote for you? Why not?

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Come on, Governor Romney, dozens of federal and state agencies can review your tax returns (Original Post) TomClash Aug 2012 OP
i was thinking the same thing FirstLight Aug 2012 #1
Good point! nt TomClash Aug 2012 #2
Who is the present Chair of the Senate Finance Committee? kentuck Aug 2012 #3
Baucus nt TomClash Aug 2012 #4

FirstLight

(13,366 posts)
1. i was thinking the same thing
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 12:08 PM
Aug 2012

i was also thinking there should actually be an investigation into fraud re: his signature on the SEC filings vs. his FEC papers...

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
3. Who is the present Chair of the Senate Finance Committee?
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 03:02 PM
Aug 2012

Can he not call a closed session and examine Romney's tax returns for national security reasons? After all, he only wants to be President...

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