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Calif. Taxpayers Due Refunds May Get IOUs By Patrick Healy NBCBayArea.com updated 8:46 p.m. ET Dec. 31, 2008 If you expect you'll be getting a refund from California when you file your 2008 state income tax return, be prepared: you may instead receive a "registered warrant." Translation: an IOU. California is rapidly running out of money. Blame it on the state budget deficit that continues to bleed billions of dollars from California's reserves. Facing inadequate credit to make up the difference, California's Controller John Chiang warns that by the end of February, the nation's most populous state may not be...

Sarah Palin is the breadwinner of the family, the documents show. Last year as Alaska governor she earned $122,000 in the "Medicare wages" field of her W-2 form, while Todd Palin earned $46,600 as an employee of BP Exploration Alaska Inc. Todd Palin also reported a net profit of $15,500 from a commercial fishing business. But the champion snow-machine racer reported a loss of nearly $10,000 from his racing venture.

Former IRS Employee Sued for Tax Scam Chicago (Sept. 5, 2008) By WebCPA staff | The Justice Department has accused a former Internal Revenue Service secretary of cheating her tax prep clients and the government out of approximately $850,000. The government filed suit in a federal district court in Chicago seeking a permanent injunction against Debra Windham to prevent her from preparing tax returns from others. Windham, who prepares returns under the business name Special Circumstances, allegedly claimed false deductions for her clients and then applied without their knowledge for refund anticipation loans in their names.

WASHINGTON - The federal tax bill for President Bush and his wife: $221,635. That's how much the Bushes owed on their adjusted gross income of $923,807 for the year 2007, according to a joint return released Friday. The Bushes have paid $203,894 so far, which means they'll need to break out the checkbook — they owe the government $17,741. Their income total includes a $150,000 advance received by Laura Bush for the children's book she co-authored with her daughter, Jenna. Last year, the president and Mrs. Bush paid $186,378 in federal taxes on their income of $765,801. Bush's salary as...

italics/bold mine:Yesterday the news was full of accounts of the Clintons' 2000-2006 tax returns. At the top of the stories -- as in the "deep background" report by Andrea Mitchell and the NBC investigative unit -- reporting their total income of $108 million over the past eight years (including 2007) was their $10 million in contributions to charity. The stories appear to be based in large part on the summary provided by the Clinton campaign, rather than on the returns themselves. Here is the summary's description of the Clintons' charitable contributions: CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS: $10,256,741 The Clintons donated $10,256,741 to charity...

ROSS: An examination of the records Clinton has filed reveals her husband is a partner in an investment fund, Yucaipa Global Partnership, registered in the Cayman Islands. The former president's Cayman Island investment is part of his dealings with a close friend, Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle. Clinton is also expected to receive a payout of around $20 million for his role as an advisor to Burkle's investment fund. Clinton also has been paid millions as a consultant for a company run by another close friend, Indian-American businessman Vinod Gupta. Clinton had earned $47 million in speaking fees since leaving...

World Exclusive: 4/4/08 15:43:06 ET 2000-2007 Returns Feds Taxes Paid: $33.7 million Charity: $10.2 million

Aaron Tonken was a grand jury witness in New York when an investigation was conducted of Bill Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Tonken is currently incarcerated, but he remains a defendant and perhaps star witness in Paul v Clinton. I don't know what he told the grand jury, but I hope we can someday find out. Today, I discussed with a source, who has knowledge of the grand jury and had done work with Denise Rich, the Clinton claim of $109 million income in the 2000-07 tax returns they just released. It evoked big laughter. My source...

GE Files 24,000-Page Tax Return WASHINGTON -- Taxpayers who gripe about long returns have nothing on General Electric Co., which filed a 24,000-page tax return this month. The Internal Revenue Service said the company "stepped up and embraced" the new requirement for companies with more than $50 million in assets to file electronically. If GE had sent paper forms, the return would have stacked up eight feet high ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush reported adjusted gross income of $784,219 for last year, on which he paid $207,307 in federal taxes - about $20,000 less than the previous year, according to the president's return released Friday by the White House. In 2003 the president and first lady Laura Bush reported $822,126 in adjusted gross income and paid $227,490 in federal income taxes. On their 2004 return the Bushes listed as income his presidential salary - about $400,000 - and investment income from trusts that hold their assets. The couple contributed $77,785 - about 10 percent of their adjusted gross...

Bush, Cheney tax returns released (White House-AP) April 15, 2005 - President Bush and first lady Laura Bush earned less from their investments last year, and they also paid less in taxes. The first couple's 2004 federal income tax return indicates reported adjusted gross income of just over $784,000. That compares to more than $822,000 in 2003. The earnings include the president's salary and income from investments held in blind trust. The Bushes paid more than $207,000 in federal taxes, or about $20,000 less than in 2003. They also donated nearly $78,000 to churches and other nonprofit groups. Vice President...

California has announced plans to launch a major new experiment in the way its residents pay taxes. Ten thousand randomly selected taxpayers will be asked to sign up for a pilot program to let the government fill out their tax returns. "Most people don't find filling out their tax forms to be a lot of fun. We're going to do it for them," State Controller Steve Westly told KCBS's Larry Chiaroni. "California is the technology leader for the world. We ought to be using more of that technology to make people's lives just a little bit simpler." Westly is a...

If Senator John Kerry wins the presidency nine days from now, his family will be the richest ever (even adjusted for inflation) to occupy the White House. How rich? And how much taxes does this rich family pay to Uncle Sam? Well, that's where things start to get murky. And there are no signs voters will get any illumination on the subject before election day. Despite repeated promises from the Kerry campaign back in May that Teresa Heinz Kerry would disclose her 2003 tax returns this October, this week's release of just two pages of her 1040 form (with no...

John Kerry and wife Teresa had a combined income of $6.8 million last year and paid $725,000 in taxes giving them a tax rate of 12.8 percent. Is this fair? Yes -- Special, important people should pay a special low rate. No -- That's disgraceful. The average American pays a 20 percent tax rate.

Full Disclosure: John Edwards often speaks of "two Americas" — one that "pays the taxes" and another that "gets the tax breaks." Meet Teresa Heinz Kerry and her tax accountants. John Kerry wants to raise taxes on everyone making over $200,000, rolling back Bush's "tax cuts for the rich." So why did his wife pay only 12.5% of her income in taxes last year? According to documents released by the Kerry campaign, Teresa Heinz Kerry in 2003 paid taxes at a rate barely above the rate paid by the lowest-income Americans who actually pay taxes. She reported a total income...

The Kerry campaign finally released Teresa Heinz Kerry's 2003 tax return, or rather two pages of it, late last Friday, and the story got buried next to the hardware-store ads.... ...In 2003, Mrs. Kerry -- or Teresa Heinz, as she declared herself on her IRS 1040 form -- earned $5.07 million, hardly a surprising income for someone estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion. The news is that $2.78 million of that income came in the form of tax-exempt interest from what the Kerry campaign's press release attributed to investments in "state, municipal and public entity bonds." ...On her remaining...

Mrs Heinz on Saturday released incomplete tax filings for 2003. Most notably absent was Schedule B. Also she filed a Schedule SE Self Employment Tax yet failed to file a Schedule C, unless the Self Employment Income came from a Partnership or LLC which then would require Form 1065. There is no Schedule K-1.

Remember the classic 1970s comic routine from Steve Martin? You can make a million dollars and pay no taxes. First, get a million dollars. Then when the IRS comes knocking on your door demanding to know why you didn't pay your taxes, just remember two simple words: "I forgot." Well, John Kerry has his own version. It goes like this: You can make a billion dollars and pay almost no taxes. First, marry a billionaire. Second, hire a gaggle of tax accountants and lawyers to bring your tax rate down to about half what many middle-income families pay.

October 16, 2004 -- John Kerry's near-billionaire wife, Teresa, reported more than $5 million in total income last year but paid only 12.5 percent in federal taxes — less than the average middle-class family — according to documents released yesterday by his campaign. Teresa Heinz Kerry reported a total income of $5,072,533, including nearly $2.8 million that escaped all federal taxes because it was on interest-free investments from state, city and other public bonds. She paid $628,401 in federal taxes, or a rate of 12.47 percent. The average middle-class family pays more than 20 percent. Mrs. Kerry's rate is barely...

After releasing a partial return of the family taxes, we were told that Teresa Heinz-Kerry's tax return indicated a paid rate of about 12% of income.

Teresa Heinz Kerry released a portion of her 2003 federal income tax return Friday, indicating that she was due a tax refund of a quarter million dollars from the Internal Revenue Service. Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry, provided more details about her income and taxes after a preliminary estimate was disclosed in May.The first two pages of her 1040 form show that she had taxable income of $2.8 million and income from tax-exempt municipal bonds of $2.2 million — a total of $5 million.

Heinz Kerry Hiding $45 Million in Income, Paid Just 1.2% in Taxes Teresa Heinz Kerry earns approximately $50 million in annual income, ten times what she revealed on tax forms released late Friday, according to the New York Times. The staggering sum generated a mere 1.2 percent federal income tax liability, unless Heinz Kerry paid additional federal taxes not shown on the forms released Friday. The average middle class American family pays 20 percent of their income in taxes, a rate 16 times higher than the would-be first family. Story Continues Below Noting that the Kerry campaign has not challenged...

Teresa Heinz Kerry Releases 2003 Tax Info; Paid Over $798,000 in Federal, State Income Taxes Fri Oct 15 2004 17:44:41 ET Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry announced today that she has filed her final 2003 federal tax forms and as she said promised last spring, has released the top two pages of her 1040 tax filings. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $798,820 in state and federal income taxes in 2003, approximately 35 percent of her gross taxable income, according to figures and federal tax forms she released today. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $627,150 in federal income taxes on gross taxable income of...

Where are they? It's October 15th. She was supposed to release them. Why is no one talking about this?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson(202) 863-8614 WASHINGTON -- RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement today on the promised release of Teresa Heinz Kerry's tax returns: "Throughout history, presidential candidates have disclosed income tax information prior to Election Day. We believe Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns. During the 2003 filing year, Sen. Kerry made a $6 million loan to his campaign based on the value of a home jointly owned with his wife. “Were it not for that infusion of cash John Kerry might not be on the campaign trail today. Because of her financial interest...

To: National Desk and Political Reporter Contact: Christine Iverson of the Republican National Committee, 202-863-8614 WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement today on the promised release of Teresa Heinz Kerry's tax returns: "Throughout history, presidential candidates have disclosed income tax information prior to Election Day. We believe Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns. During the 2003 filing year, Sen. Kerry made a $6 million loan to his campaign based on the value of a home jointly owned with his wife. "Were it not for that infusion of cash John Kerry might...

Brit Hume The Kerrys paid 12.8% on their taxes last year The Bushes paid over 30%!!

This is all I have on this. They mentioned that she is going to release her complete tax returns this week and the press will have a field day. Has anyone else heard anything?

Theresa Heinz Kerry: You pay taxes, I don't Gerard JacksonBrookesNews.Com Theresa Heinz Kerry likes taxes so much she thinks the little people should pay even more. She doesn't put it like that, of course. But what is one to think when the "sexy" Theresa Heinz Kerry supports increased taxes for others while drastically slashing her own taxes. Several months ago I was discussing Theresa Heinz Kerry and her fortune with a friend who had personal experience in that particular field. He reckoned that her assets were yielding an annual average return of at least 8 per cent. Well bless...

<p>WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry earned more than $100,000 last year on her Flying Squirrel charter jet - which her husband's presidential campaign used to the tune of nearly $300,000, financial documents show. Personal financial disclosure papers filed by the Kerry campaign show that Heinz Kerry has invested more than $1 million in the Flying Squirrel jet charter.</p>

Now we know why Steve Forbes wants the flat tax. Wealthy individuals such as Teresa Heinz Kerry pay less in taxes, proportionately, than does the median U.S. family......

Kerry Earns Nearly $90G in Book Royalties By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) earned nearly $90,000 in book royalties in 2003, according to financial reports filed Monday. The Massachusetts senator's income also increased slightly, compared to his financial disclosure form filed a year ago. According to the latest report, Kerry has between $430,000 and $2.1 million in four separate trusts. Kerry inherited three trusts in 2002 after his mother's death. The holdings include between $66,000 and $165,000 in U.S. Treasury bonds, as well as thousands of dollars in stocks...

Painting Sells, Kerry Makes Error on Tax by Daniel Grant Massachusetts Senator and presumptive Democratic party presidential nominee John Kerry is quickly becoming known nationally for his Senate record, his Vietnam War experience, his opinions on President Bush and the economy, his patrician background, and his current wife. Add to the mix his experience as an art investor or, more specifically, the sale last year of a 17th-century Dutch painting by Adam Willaerts. The sale was part of a complicated arrangement engineered by his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and Litchfield, Connecticut, art dealer Peter Tillou, who had jointly purchased the...

<p>John Kerry's presidential campaign finally began releasing information about his wife's taxes this week. What drips were made available have raised more questions than they have answered. And it is clear that the senator's wife, who has ably served as his indispensable political sugar momma ever since he came within a whisker of being drubbed out of the Senate in 1996, is going to have to share a lot more information. Yes, we know that Teresa Heinz Kerry has received an extension until Oct. 15 for filing her tax return on 2003 income. So, releasing her return for 2002 income will be a good first step.</p>

The widow Heinz's tax-exempt fortune buoyed by our bucks By Howie Carr Recent Columns by Howie Carr Friday, May 14, 2004 ``We don't pay taxes,'' Leona Helmsley famously said in 1989. ``Only the little people pay taxes.'' Leona Helmsley, meet Teresa Heinz Kerry, second wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Sen. John Forbes Kerry of Massachusetts. Kerry's campaign issued a ``summary'' of Teresa's 2003 income taxes this week - a couple of hours after the release of the video of the beheading of Nicholas Berg in Iraq. The Kerry campaign is often criticized for its stumbles, but in...

<p>'WE don't pay taxes," Leona Helmsley famously said in 1989. "Only the little people pay taxes."</p> <p>Leona Helmsley, meet Teresa Heinz Kerry, second wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Sen. John Forbes Kerry of Massachusetts.</p> <p>Kerry's campaign issued a "summary" of Teresa's 2003 income taxes this week - a couple of hours after the release of the video of the beheading of Nicholas Berg in Iraq. The campaign is often criticized for its stumbles, but this tactic succeeded brilliantly: Coverage of Teresa's taxes has been minimal.</p>

John Kerry's wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry aka Lovey, paid less than 15% on $5.1 million in income for the year 2003. What about the Children?

<p>WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry's wife, Teresa - one of America's richest women - had over $5 million in income last year, but paid a lower tax rate than an ordinary person earning $50,000, according to a campaign statement released yesterday.</p>

October 17, 1990 TAX TUG OF WAR KERRY PUSHES HIS RIVAL TO RELEASE 5-YEAR DATA Sen. John Kerry, continuing to pressure Republican challenger Jim Rappaport to release complete tax returns for the last five years, said yesterday that Rappaport's involvement in a massive condominium conversion project might have been structured to avoid paying income taxes. Kerry, a Democrat, referred to a Globe story published yesterday that said Rappaport and other investors profited from controversial condominium conversions in the mid-1980s that were challenged by the Boston Redevelopment Authority; subsequently, the Massachusetts Appeals Court said that future conversions would require prior BRA...

WASHINGTON — Always interested in stimulating private investment, John Kerry proposed early in his Senate career that stock dividends be exempt from income taxes. In 1998, he voted to reduce the holding period necessary for claiming a lower tax rate on capital gains. Imagine if Mr. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, became president and supported such measures. He would immediately be accused by his political opponents of padding his own pockets - or at least those of his wife, one of the richest people in America, worth more than $500 million. How much, they would ask, would his wife save?...

<p>It is safe to say that if John Kerry had lost his Senate re-election bid to Republican Gov. William Weld in 1996, Mr. Kerry would not be the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee today. Mr. Weld, who won re-election as governor in 1994 with 71 percent of the vote, was a formidable opponent. In a novel arrangement, both candidates pledged to limit the use of their families' personal wealth to $500,000 for the general election.</p>

Please FREEP my petition demanding Teresa Heinz Kerry release her 2003 tax return! I plan on altering it when I take it down to demand prior returns as well. Whether this works or not is irrelevant-we want to be a thorn in their sides! I also think it is important to show how sleazy and sneaky the Kerry camp is (not that it isn't abundantly obvious). Please help a fellow FREEPER out! Also, check out the stupid DU'ers who signed my petition. They are pathetically stupid!

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic frontrunner John F. Kerry, refuses to release her tax return to the general public. What is Ms. Heinz Kerry hiding? I find the cloak of secrecy that Ms. Heinz Kerry and her husband have wrapped around their affairs (e.g., Mr. Kerry’s military records) quite troubling. If they can not be forthright and candid with the American public now, during the campaign, one could only image what they would hide from the nation if elected. This is an issue of great concern. There is no question the Mr. Kerry’s and Ms. Heinz Kerry’s financial affairs...

The Democrat candidate's spouse refuses to disclose tax returns. Republicans seize the issue, asking what the spouse is hiding. The New York Times calls for full disclosure. Distracted by the controversy, the candidate is on the defensive. The spouse eventually relents and agrees to release five years' worth of tax returns, but only after the candidate's campaign has been damaged. Sound familiar? Yes, John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, has refused to make her tax returns public, and her decision has caused some controversy. But she's not the spouse in the example above. That would be John A. Zaccaro, husband...

HOUSTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry has filed for an extension on her 2003 US income tax forms, giving her husband John F. Kerry's presidential campaign until mid-August to decide whether to make her tax records public, as some Republicans and newspaper editorial boards have demanded. Campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said yesterday that Heinz Kerry's tax returns, whenever they are filed, would not be made public, because she is a private citizen who is under no requirement to do so. Yet in recent days, some campaign aides have discussed among themselves whether to release the records in order to settle questions...

SEN. JOHN KERRY, having escaped intact a one-hour grilling by NBC’s Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” Sunday, slipped in the closing minutes. When asked why his multi-millionaire wife was not making public her tax returns, he misinterpreted the law and the facts. He can only hope voters regard this as arcane trivia. Three days before her husband’s first full-length televised interview since he clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination, Teresa Heinz Kerry became the first would-be first lady to refuse disclosure since the practice became common. Kerry told Russert the law required him but not his wife to reveal tax...

<p>ON the issue of affluent Americans paying more income taxes, John Kerry is, as always, consistent in his inconsistency.</p> <p>On the campaign trail, he's in favor of raising taxes on everybody who makes over $200,000 a year. Unless, of course, he's the one being asked to pay more, in which case, forget about it.</p>

John Kerry released his federal income tax forms recently, but as far as I can tell, he hasn't released a copy of his state tax return. In 2002, Massachusetts enacted a change to its tax law that allows filers to voluntarily pay a higher tax rate of 5.85% (as opposed to the normal tax rate of 5.3%) on certain kinds of income. Kerry has talked a lot about how "the rich" are ripping the rest of us off by not paying "their fair share". So, did the über-wealthy JFK live up to his rhetoric and pay the higher state tax...

Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] had to amend his tax return this week after accountants discovered he owed nearly $12,000 more than he thought. The Bay State senator first reported paying $90,575 in federal income taxes on $395,000 in income. But yesterday his campaign announced that ``due to an accounting error,'' Kerry had filed an amended return bumping his taxes up to $102,152. Spokesman Michael Meehan said Kerry's accountants calculated his capital gains tax wrongly at a 20 percent rate instead of the correct 28 percent. The original return showed $175,000 in capital gains from the sale of a...