so you think romney is a charitble man? even here romney is slimey.

Mitt Romney gives lots of money to his church! Sorta. It turns out he’s also a very clever man, with a deep knowledge of the tax code, who has cunningly used loopholes to generate the appearance of giving money to the church while keeping most of it for himself.


Romney reportedly took advantage of a loophole, called a charitable remainder unitrust or CRUT, which allows someone to park money or securities in a tax-deferred trust marked for their favorite charity, but which often doesn’t pay out much to the non-profit. The donor pays taxes on the fixed yearly income they get from the trust, but the principle remains untaxed . Congress outlawed the practice in 1997, but Romney slid in under the wire when his trust, created in June 1996, was grandfathered in.

The trust essentially lets someone “rent” the charity’s tax-exemption while not actually giving the charity much money. If done for this purpose, the trust pays out more every year to the donor than it makes in returns on its holdings, depleting the principal over time, so that when the donor dies and the trust is transferred to the charity, there’s often little left. The actual contribution “is just a throwaway,” Jonathan Blattmachr, a lawyer who set up hundreds of CRUTS in the 1990s, told Bloomberg. “I used to structure them so the value dedicated to charity was as close to zero as possible without being zero.”

Indeed, this appears to the case for Romney’s trust as well. Bloomberg obtained the trust’s tax returns through a Freedom of Information Request and found that Romney’s CRUT started at $750,000 in 2001 but ended 2011 with only $421,203 — over a period when the stock market grew. Romney’s trust was projected to leave less than 8 percent of the original contribution to the church (or another charity that he can designate). This, along with the trust’s poor returns — it made just $48 in 2011 — suggest the trust is not designed to grow for the LDS church but just serve as a tax-free holding pool from which annual payments can be disbursed to the Romneys.


http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/31/romney-is-a-very-devout-man/

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/31/how_romney_used_his_churchs_charity_status_to_lower_his_tax_bill/

How Romney used his church’s charity status to lower his tax bill

Mitt rented the Mormon church's tax exempt status to decrease his bill, new documents show

 

The right loves to bring up his charity but giving to a cult to lower his tax bills isn't charity imo

 

true or not true, I don't really give a shit as it is his money.

what I care about are a-holes like you and obama that want be 'charitable' with MY money

 

I'll have to check but I think kennedy had one of those.

 

+ 16 Trillion...and counting...

 

Of course you'd "think" that wigger, because your concept of charity is stealing even more from the productive to give to the undeserving parasite class.

 

Do you have any idea what percent of the budget goes to this "undeserving parasite class"?

Of course you don't.

 

Seems like Romney is very good at achieving his objectives. In this case it was to keep ,legally as much money he has earned.

If his objective is to work off public debt and boost growth. I agree with you, he is very clever in how to handle money to achieve his objectives.

 

TOO much, WAY too much.

 

Yup and and you'd be outraged too if you weren't a parasite.