Editing Whitewater controversy (section)

==Tax returns==
In March 1992, during his presidential campaign, the Clintons acknowledged that on their 1984 and 1985 tax returns, they had claimed improper [[tax deduction]]s for [[interest]] payments made by the Whitewater Development Company.<ref name="nyt080695">[[Jeff Gerth]] and Stephen Labaton, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DB1631F935A3575BC0A963958260 " Whitewater Papers Cast Doubt on Clinton Account of a Tax Underpayment"], ''The New York Times'', August 6, 1995. Accessed April 30, 2007.</ref> Due to the age of the mistake, the Clintons were not obligated to make good the error, but Bill Clinton announced that they would nonetheless do so.<ref name="nyt080695"/>

Deputy White House counsel [[Vince Foster]] looked into this matter, but did not take any action before his death.<ref name="nyt080695"/> On December 28, 1993, almost two years after the original announcement, the Clintons did make a reimbursement payment, for $4,900, to the [[Internal Revenue Service]]. This was done just before Justice Department investigators started seeking the Clintons' Whitewater files. The payment was made without filing an amended return (possibly because the three-year period for amended return filing had passed), but did include full interest on the amount of the error, including the additional two-year delay.<ref name="nyt080695"/> The Whitewater files in question, publicly released in August 1995, cast some doubt on the Clintons' assertions in the matter, as they showed that the couple was aware that the interest payments in question were paid by the Whitewater corporation, and not them personally.<ref name="nyt080695"/>