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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>