My Effective Federal IncomeTax Rate Higher than Apple's

In my prior post HERE I indicated that TuboTax says my 2011 effective income tax rate was 18.89%, higher than Romney's 14.1% effective income tax rate.

New Forbes story HERE says Apple's effective income tax rate was 13.8%. (If this included any state or local income taxes, this would mean that their effective federal income tax rate was even lower).

Since I do so many data related posts, wonder if I can write off my home as a "data center"? 

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.