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Tough week for failing ‘frontrunner’ Mitt Romney

By | 01.25.12 | 9:17 am

President Obama in his State of the Union speech last night laid out the no-brainer case again for deficit reduction through a return to tax code fairness. The speech came hours after multi-millionaire Republican primary frontrunner Mitt Romney released the low-rate, off-shore income tax returns he submitted last year– returns that among sensible people will devastate Republican trickle-down economics talking points on tax policy and government finances. What else happened to Mitt Romney this week?

Maes tax records document struggling family business

By | 07.20.10 | 9:51 am

GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has released partial tax records to conservative Colorado Springs-based website The Constitutionalist Today. The site has not posted the returns but reviews them in a short article. In 2005, Maes started a credit…

McInnis articles for Hasan Foundation difficult to track down

By | 05.12.10 | 10:56 am

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis on the Caplis and Silverman KHOW radio show April 26, discussed his tax returns and addressed roughly $150,000 he earned from the GOP friendly Hasan Family Foundation after he left Congress. “How does…

McInnis now says guarding tax forms to avoid revealing total law firm profits

By | 04.28.10 | 12:42 pm

On Monday, Scott McInnis campaign Communications Director Sean Duffy told the Colorado independent that McInnis’s income from law firm Hogan & Hartson was reported on K1 forms– forms used to report partnership income– and that McInnis would not…

McInnis tax returns only fuel calls for greater transparency

By | 04.27.10 | 9:17 am

According to partial tax returns reviewed by the Colorado Independent Monday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis has earned nearly $2.9 million since leaving Congress in 2005 and joining the law firm Hogan & Hartson. He has paid federal income taxes of just over $680,000, for an income tax rate of 23.6 percent.

McInnis dodges financial disclosure, fears ‘taking a beating’

By | 04.26.10 | 5:02 pm

The race for governor in Colorado took a turn this weekend, as the candidates released tax returns to the public. Democrat John Hickenlooper released more than two decades of returns. Republican Scott McInnis released only a couple of years’ worth, and he released those returns reluctantly. Indeed, on April 15 he told Fox News Radio in Loveland that he wasn’t going to comply with a Denver Post request to release his returns. “I’m not going to invite myself to my own beating,” he told hosts Keith Weinman and Gail Fallen. Although the Fox News hosts didn’t ask him to elaborate, media outlets and activist groups have taken up the cause.

Hickenlooper releases 23 years of tax returns

By | 04.25.10 | 12:05 am

Candidates for governor John Hickenlooper and Scott MicInnis this week released tax returns to the media. Democrat Hickenlooper released 23 years of returns, which list nearly $3 million in charitable gifts of cash, stocks and real estate.