MITT ROMNEY'S REAL TAX RATE
ALL TAXES AS PERCENT OF ALL INVESTMENT RETURN & WAGES
SEE THIS PAGE FOR TABLE NOTES
SEE A COPY OF MR. ROMNEY'S FEDERAL TAX RETURN
Since the Romneys paid no penalty despite their underpayment of estimated taxes for 2010, their 2009 income tax must have been under $1,245,000, less than half of what he paid for 2010. Assuming their investment return on their $200 million net-worth was only half that of the S&P500 for 2009, their federal tax rate was under 5% of their investment returns and income that year.
From the New York Times: "What Mr. Romney’s returns illustrated ... was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich, allowing Mr. Romney to amass wealth under rules very different from those faced by most Americans who take home a paycheck."
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QUIZ: We know Mr. Romney has accumulated a net worth of about $250,000,000. If a minimum-wage worker has saved $900, using the total tax figures above, how much higher is the worker’s tax rate, as a percentage of net-worth, than Mr. Romney’s?
ANSWER: 275 times higher. Her total taxes are 549% of her net worth. His total taxes are 2% of his net worth.
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