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morningfog

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Fri Jan 20, 2012, 07:09 PM Jan 2012

Romney offshore accounts contain up to $32 million

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney owns investments worth between $7 million and $32 million in offshore-based holdings, which are often used legitimately by private equity firms to attract foreign investors. Such offshore accounts also can enable wealthy investors to defer paying U.S. taxes on some assets, according to tax experts.

An Associated Press examination of Romney's financial records identified at least six funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a small Caribbean island chain that has long been used as a base for international investments because of low tax rates and financial secrecy. Romney has acknowledged that some of his investments are based in the Caymans, but he has not identified all of the specific accounts and the amounts based there. There is no indication Romney uses the accounts to dodge any U.S. tax obligations.

Read the entire article here: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/romney-offshore-accounts-contain-1310539.html

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Romney offshore accounts contain up to $32 million (Original Post) morningfog Jan 2012 OP
"There is no indication Romney uses the accounts to dodge any U.S. tax obligations." Fuzz Jan 2012 #1
"There is no indication Romney uses the accounts to dodge any U.S. tax obligations." Thaddeus Kosciuszko Jan 2012 #2
 
2. "There is no indication Romney uses the accounts to dodge any U.S. tax obligations."
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 07:26 PM
Jan 2012

One can only hope (which is not rational) that the magnitude of meaningless, irrelevant, extraneous and superfluous considerations will rise to a level, that renders it indecipherable. Leaving no other option, but to consider ideas.

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