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Offshore Tactics Helped Increase Romneys WealthBy MICHAEL LUO and MIKE McINTIRE
Buried deep in the tax returns released by Mitt Romneys presidential campaign are references to dozens of offshore holdings with names like Ursa Funding (Luxembourg) S.à.r.l. and Sankaty Credit Opportunities Investors (Offshore) IV, based in the Cayman Islands.
Mr. Romney, responding to opponents barbs about his use of overseas tax havens, has offered a narrow defense, saying only that the investments, many made through the private equity firm he founded, Bain Capital, have yielded him not one dollar of reduction in taxes.
A review of thousands of pages of financial documents and interviews with tax lawyers found that in some cases, the offshore arrangements enabled his individual retirement account to avoid taxes on its investments and may well have reduced Mr. Romneys personal income tax bills.
But perhaps a more significant impact of Mr. Romneys offshore investments has been on the profit side of the ledger in the way Bains tax-avoidance strategies have enhanced his income.
Some of the offshore entities enabled Bain-owned companies to sidestep certain taxes, increasing returns for Mr. Romney and other investors. Others helped Bain attract foreign investors and nonprofit institutions by insulating them from taxes, again augmenting Mr. Romneys bottom line, since he shared in management fees based on the size of each Bain fund.
The documents which include confidential Bain prospectuses and foreign regulatory filings, many previously unreported illustrate how these tax-avoidance strategies are woven into the fabric of Bains deal making. While hardly a novel concept and not unique to Bain, the inevitable result is that elite investors like Mr. Romney are able to increase their fortunes in ways unavailable to most taxpayers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/politics/bains-offshore-strategies-grew-romneys-wealth.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121002&pagewanted=print
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Offshore Tactics Helped Increase Romneys’ Wealth - New York Times tells us how (Original Post)
Mira
Oct 2012
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rfranklin
(13,200 posts)1. He'll have plenty of time to count his ill gotten gains in the future...
He should stick to what he's good at.
Mira
(22,380 posts)2. That smell in the air...
It is goose, and it is cooked. This time his quest will genuinely be over.
I say as I pray.