It has been noticed that Romney did not claim all of his charitable deductions on his 2011 tax return.
As Talking Points Memo pointed out, this was done "to artificially keep his effective tax rate above 13 percent ... to keep Romney's taxes in line with a claim he made earlier this year that he had never paid less than a 13 percent rate — without this deliberate overpayment, he'd have had an estimated tax rate of just 12.2 percent, the lowest he's disclosed for any year."
So he's paying 14.1% of his total income in federal taxes this year ... a pretty sweet deal when he's in the 35% bracket. But the most cynical part of this ploy? Follow me after the squiggle.
I predict Romney will simply file a revised return the day after the election, making his effective tax rate for 2011 just 12.1%.
Not true? Let him deny it.