Offshore tax havens! Mysterious companies! Strange retirement-account gimmicks! Mitt Romney’s personal finances—or what little we know about them—seem to have all the twists and turns of a Grisham novel. Vanity Fair reports on Mitt’s money weirdness, which includes the obligatory Swiss and Cayman Islands holdings, as well as an I.R.A. that may contain more than $100 million (which would only be possible through some rather complex number jiggering on the part of Bain Capital). While Romney claims to be complying with tax law, it appears that he “seems comfortable striding into some fuzzy gray zones.” But beyond the legality of his financial maneuvering, the politics could prove troublesome for him during a time of widespread economic distress. “What Romney does not get,” says one offshore tax-law expert, “is that this stuff is weird.”
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