Surprising that someone with untold wealth would use an off-the-shelf tax preparation software rather than an accountant. But he is a fiscal conservative…
Anonymous AKA Billy’s computer
(La Jolla, CA) The Fishington Cheesington Post, with help from the Anonymous hacker group (AKA high school sophomore Billy Pemberton of Peekskill, NY), has obtained Mitt Romney’s 2010 TurboTax files stored on his computer’s hard drive.
The fact that Mr. Romney listed income from offshore bank accounts was not surprising.
But more surprising was that, despite income, interest and dividends of more than 24 Million dollars, he had an income tax refund of more than 2.9 Million.
How did he do it? Well, it seems Mitt, like many Americans, has fudged his deductions quite a bit.
Specifically, he has claimed a fictitious dependent named “Seamus.”
While Mitt Romney did give more than $400,000 to the Mormon Church, he also listed a dubious deduction of 100 dog kennels to the Salvation Army.
That’s a lot of dog kennels for a long dead dog.
Billy at this point is asking the Romney campaign to send the sum of $4,000 to his Paypal account or he will release the rest of the tax returns.
“But you know what? I’m throwing a house party next Saturday night while [next-door neighbor Jim] Holmertz’s parents are away, so if he’d buy for us we could work something out.”
