or nonresident of massachusetts. but all of that, he said, how are you going to explain doing that? he said it was all other people s mistakes. the reporter he talked to in 2000 who noted that mr. romney had declared his utah home his primary residence, well, mr. romney said that must have been a mistake on the reporter s part. he told the massachusetts state ballot commission, quote, i have met with that reporter at least 100 times over the last three years and i don t recall a specific conversation about my residence in utah. that reporter got a subpoena to appear in massachusetts and testify as to whether or not mr. romney told her that, and the paper resisted that subpoena. in terms of the tax break that mr. romney got on his utah house for being a full-time resident of utah, he blamed a clerk in the tax assessor s office in utah saying he had never asked for that tax break. somebody accidentally gask gave it to him and accidentally saved him $54,000. the county assessor took the h
both as a citizen and in terms of his financial life. in terms of the way i explained that history in massachusetts, did i get any of that wrong as far as you know? i think you got it right. and in trying to present this case to the ballot law commission, we were trying to show exactly what he had said under oath, signing as you point out under the pains and penalties of perjury, not by the way as he characterized it, to the best of his knowledge and belief, but under the pains and penalty of perjury. and we had the tax assessor statements in utah, we had the utah resident tax returns. the massachusetts non-resident tax returns, and then we had his attempt to retroactively rewrite his personal history. he was trying to retroactively essentially refile his taxes so his massachusetts taxes would be filed as if he
lifelike corporation, and some other business interests that did not seem to be associated with bain. when there was this more recent controversy about whether or not he should be seen as being involved with bain after he left to go run the olympics, did you see that evidence that he presented a decade ago as being relevant to his case there? he was trying to show that he had family and social ties back to massachusetts. and really nobody was disputing that. the fact is that he had been very clearly stating one thing about his life and he started stating something else. and that he did this, these statements that he then tried to change later in a way oddly enough, it was always in a way that saved him taxes, whether it was property taxes where he declared himself to have a principle residence in utah, and in massachusetts which got him a tax benefit in both places, or income taxes. james roosevelt jr., former
massachusetts taxes. but that june, that year he was running, june 2002, under pressure from the democrats in the state and under scrutiny from the boston press, that story fell apart because it turns out he had not been paying taxes as a massachusetts resident like he said he had. he had not been paying taxes as a massachusetts resident. he had been paying taxes as a utah resident. he said that was not the case, but high got caught. after he got caught, he admitted, yeah, he had been filing as a utah resident, but he was retroactively, now that he was running for governor, he was going back a few years and was going to change that. retroactively, but it was a huge mess. i mean, mr. romney had told a local newspaper reporter in utah that he had declared utah his primary residence for tax purposes. he had claimed a giant permanent resident of utah tax credit on his big utah house out there. he saved $54,000 in taxes by doing that. he had signed multiple years of tax returns as a part-ti
and the interesting thing was that in the ballot law commission hearing, we were trying to show what we believed to be true, that he had changed his residence to utah. he was trying to show that he had maintained continuous ties with massachusetts while he was in utah working on the olympics. and that s why he testified about his continuing business interests in massachusetts, his continuing return to massachusetts for board meetings that grew out of his employment at bain. looking through the transcripts today of his testimony before the ballot law commission, which were voluminous and mind bending by the end of the day, one of the things that becomes quite clear is when he says he spent lots of time in massachusetts, a lot of it is on business related matters, serving on the board of the staples kor s corporation, was involved in his time at bain, serving on the board of another corporation called the