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MAR-14-94 MON 10:37 MONEY PROMOTION P.02 Money Where American Dreams still come true. N E W S Time & Life Building Rockefeller Center New York NY 10020 For immediate release: Monday, March 14, 1994 CLINTONS MAY OWE $45,000 TO THE IRS, MONEY AUDIT REVEALS Questionable Write-Offs Over 13 Years An in-depth examination of Bill and Hillary Clinton's federal income tax returns for the years 1980 through 1992 suggests that the First Couple may have underpaid their income taxes by $16,358 over that period--and that their total liability would be $45,411, including Internal Revenue Service interest charges on the under- payment, according to a report in the April issue of Money magazine. Money's nine-week investigation indicates that the Clintons may have committed "three glaring mistakes": 1) though both are sophisticated lawyers, they didn't keep adequate records, 2) they tended to overestimate certain deductions, and 3) they relied far too much on their tax preparer to get everything right. The Clintons' questionable write-offs over the 13-year period Money studied dealt with the couples' charitable contributions; Bill's business expenses as Arkansas governor; Hillary's automobile depreciation; and, most important, the Whitewater real estate development deal that went bad. (Money notes that because the IRS' statute of limitations on audits has expired on returns filed before April 15, 1990, the Clintons would not be legally required to pay most of the $16,358 or any interest unless fraud was found. In addition, the deadline for

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