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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCome 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?
FirstLight
(13,366 posts)i was also thinking there should actually be an investigation into fraud re: his signature on the SEC filings vs. his FEC papers...
TomClash
(11,344 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)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...