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Romney earned $20.9m last year, paid 15.4% in taxes

By Todd Wallack

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 24, 2012

Mitt Romney, trying to stem a growing stream of stories about his tax returns, has revealed that he and his wife earned $20.9 million and paid 15.4 percent of that in taxes last year. In 2010, he and his wife earned $21.7 million and paid 13.9 percent in taxes, according to information provided to the Washington Post. The revelation confirms what Romney had already suggested: The former Massachusetts governor pays federal taxes at a lower rate than many working Americans. TK

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