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He won't and there's a good reason.
The longer Romney refuses to release the more people will think he's hiding something. That casts him not only as secretive, but dishonest. Why would a candidate break a transparency tradition that every candidate in the modern era has freely done?
Because there's something really bad in there. Romney's refusal is actively helping Obama's campaign cast suspicion on Romney's finances and honesty. You don't help your opponent label you as being out of touch, secretive and dishonest unless proving them wrong releases something far worse then not paying much legally.
How many campaigns have you seen where candidate A helped candidate B spread a nasty rumor about candidate A?
Romney's making it worse for him. That alone tells me there's something much worse then not paying much legally.
Does it? What do you know about the Mormons? Based on the literature I've read on them, they tend to be a very devout faith. Can you guess why? Well, to put it simply, due to the date of their founding you can cite and make inferences(based on the history of) any prominent person in their history. This has lead to numerous academics debunking various portions of their religion. All this tells us something very important: You have to be either really or devout really uninformed for this faith to hold any weight in your mind - I'm certain a person like Romney isn't the latter of the two.
So going on the assumption that Romney is a devout Mormon, he obviously holds the values of a Mormon. The Mormons(aside from the religion's leaders) are a squeaky clean group of people(if you want proof, go look at BYU or the CIA recruiters in Provo). I don't think he's done anything he needs to hide, he merely wants to keep his obscene income out of the public eye in an effort to seem more relateable - and an effort to try and make his interests look aligned with ours. :thinking