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Accountant: Obamas Botched their Taxes
WSJ Fox Nation ^ | April 24 | Laura Saunders

Posted on 04/24/2012 9:06:53 AM PDT by JesseWatters

When President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden released their 2011 tax returns just before Tax Day, most comments focused on their income and tax rates. There’s more to say, according to CPA Steven Bankler in San Antonio, who is certified as a forensic accountant and worked for the Senate Whitewater committee. Every year Bankler shares an analysis of our leaders’ tax returns with the journal Tax Notes. Here are some of his observations for this year. The Obamas should pay down their mortgage. They apparently have a 30-year mortgage on their Chicago house with a fixed rate of 5.625% from Northern Trust, the private bank that is also the custodian of their blind trust. Their $48,000 interest deduction indicates they still owe about $850,000 on the house, says Bankler.

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1 posted on 04/24/2012 9:06:58 AM PDT by JesseWatters
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To: JesseWatters

Tim Geithner must have helped them file.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 9:12:13 AM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: JesseWatters
The 69-year-old vice-president is collecting Social Security in addition to his vice-presidential salary of $226,000.

Really? Why did Biden choose to take Social Security earlier than required? And Obama made the choice to shelter income? Sounds like a loophole to me! Don't these berks ever practice what they preach? What I want to know is how their tax rates compare to that of their secretaries.

3 posted on 04/24/2012 9:13:53 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: Obama sez: "Nice little Supreme Court you got here. Shame if anything were to happen to it.")
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To: JesseWatters

Well, no one ever said that he was a financial wizard.


4 posted on 04/24/2012 9:16:17 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: outofsalt

If they can’t manage their own money why the hell are they qualified to manage OURS?

PATHETIC!


5 posted on 04/24/2012 9:16:17 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: unixfox; Liz; STARWISE; maggief; onyx; SE Mom; stephenjohnbanker; LucyT
Needs repeating:

If they can’t manage their own money why the hell are they qualified to manage OURS?

6 posted on 04/24/2012 9:21:12 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: JesseWatters

It was actually Michael S. Solheim, the dumbass CPA, who botched the Obama’s tax return.


7 posted on 04/24/2012 9:24:27 AM PDT by SC DOC
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To: NonValueAdded
when did Biden ever work enough to qualify for social security? He was in the Senate for years and Congress is exempt from paying into social security

Note the bidens continue their generous charitable giving and obama controllers continue to launder payments to keep him and mooch in luxury in the form of “book royalties”

8 posted on 04/24/2012 9:34:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: JesseWatters

As per a collections agent (skip tracer) who did research, Bath-House Barry’s house (Greenwood Ave, Chicago IL) is owned by Jayne Stewart-a circuit court judge in Cook County AND his accountant is ALSO part owner.

The house has 6-7 “PIN” numbers when it should only have 1 PIN Index Number.
This collections agent seems to suggest Real Estate Fraud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7czei27fTY&feature=related


9 posted on 04/24/2012 9:42:12 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: JesseWatters
They apparently have a 30-year mortgage on their Chicago house with a fixed rate of 5.625%

They should at least refinance.

Wouldn't it be funny if the bank had to foreclose?
10 posted on 04/24/2012 9:43:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: silverleaf

I guess he worked somewhere in the 4 years between his Law School PhD. and being elected to the Senate in ‘72.


11 posted on 04/24/2012 9:47:03 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The pricing of jumbo mortgages is higher than conventional


12 posted on 04/24/2012 9:47:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: JesseWatters

Bump


13 posted on 04/24/2012 9:47:50 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: JesseWatters

The Obamas should pay down their mortgage

They are waiting for the taxpayers to write it down and pay ir off just like his voters do.
Of course the argument could be made that the taxpayers are already paying for it through his salary.


14 posted on 04/24/2012 9:52:10 AM PDT by sheana
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To: JesseWatters

AMT will knock out the deductibility of mortgage interest, state and property taxes.

Yes, they should pay it down; lest they think they can collect > 5.625% in a savings account (not).


15 posted on 04/24/2012 9:57:37 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

To refinance the bank would ask for ID.

Who on earth would not refi a $850k at 5.625%?


16 posted on 04/24/2012 11:03:52 AM PDT by RC51
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To: JesseWatters

Money laundering. Is that bank going to foreclose on the golden goose? The tax return is as phony as Soetoro is.


17 posted on 04/24/2012 11:05:11 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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