TAXPROF HAS MORE ON THE TERESA HEINZ KERRY TAX RETURN STORY and notes that the New York Times misses something:

Today’s New York Times gets a crucial bit of the story wrong: it says that “in the past 30 years, all major-party presidential and vice-presidential nominees have made their tax returns public. President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Mr. Kerry have done so this year.” Not entirely true. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney themselves broke with this 30-year tradition and released only partial returns in prior years as Ms. Heinz Kerry proposes doing this year. Bush and Cheney reversed course in 2003 and released their full returns. One has to wonder if they suddenly became fans of increased transparanecy or instead did so in order to take advantage of Ms. Heinz Kerry’s unwillingness to do so (abetted by incomplete reports like that in today’s New York Times).

You’d think that the Kerry campaign would be on top of this.