No, it's not a good point.
I saw Lawrence O'Donnell on his show last night claiming that Romney's accountants were going to rework his tax return to show a higher tax rate etc. Where the h3ll do these people get this stuff? (short answer is that they're making up complete crap for political purposes)
This is silly. Tax CPA's have a term for tax planning after the year has ended - it's called fraud.
And given that Romney is an investor, he has little-to-no (probably 'no') ability to tax plan anyway. As some of you who have brokerage accounts or schedule k-1's know you receive a form after the close of year telling you the amounts of income and where to put them on your tax return. There is no flexibility, no choice. The IRS receives a copy of your form and they will run (a computer program for matching) your tax return against this info to make sure it was done properly.
Also, IIRC, Romney has had his assets in a blind trust for years. He has no knowledge or say, therefore no ability to plan or manipulate.
Romney's been running for office since about 1994 in one capacity or another. He's been running for President since '06 or '07, to think he's suddenly going to now start manipulating this one tax return makes no sense anyway.
So, I really wouldn't worry about some 'phonied up' tax return because it's really not possible.
And unless he's in some mostly 'vanilla type' stuff I'd be surprised if he can have his tax return ready by April. Partnerships and S corps usually don't get their tax accounting done until March or April (sometimes they extend until the Fall) making it difficult, if not impossible, for the individuals involved to have returns done by April.
Fern