The Republican journal., 1917-12-27
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| PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. q, 1917
You won't have to figure out your own
income tax all by yourself hereafter The
government is going to send out men to
help you. 1t will be up to you to hunt
up these men, who will be sent into every
county seat town, and some other towns
besides, to meet the people. They will
answer your questions, swear you to the
return, take your money, and remove the
wrinkles from your brow. Returns of
income for 1917 must be made between
January l and March 1, 1918.
! THE Government recognizes that
/ many persons experience a good deal of
difficulty in filling out income tax blanks
1t recognizes too, that taxpayers resident
at points where collectors offices are not
easily accessible find it hard to get proper
instruction in the law. Next year, when
every married person living with wife or
husband and having net income of ST.
600, and every person unmarried not the
head of family and having a net in
come of 81, 900 for the year 1917 must
make return of income on the form pre-
scribed, there will be hundreds in every
community seeking light on the law, and
help in executing their returns. My own
and every other collection district in the
nation will be divided into districts, with
the county as the unit, and government
officer informed in the income tax assign
ed to each district. He will spend hard
ly less than a week in each county, and
in some counties longer time, very like
| ly in the court house at the county seat
town. 1t will be unnecessary for pro-
spective taxpayers to ask my office for
forms on which to make returns. The
officer who visits their county will have
them.
at may be stated as matter of gener-
al information that net income is the re-
mainder after substracting expenses from
gross income. Personal, family, or living
expense is not expense in the meaning of
the law, the exemption being allowed to
cover such expenses.
The new exemptions of $1,000 and
So, 900 will add tens of thousands to the
number of income taxpayers in this dis
trict inasmuch as practically every farm
er, merchant, tradesman, professional
man and salary worker and great many
wage workers will be required to make
return and pay tax.
''The law makes it the duty of the tax
payer to seek out the collector. Many
people assume that if an income tax form
is not sent or government officer does
not call, they are relieved from making
report. This is decidedly in error. 1t is
the other way round. The taxpayer has
to go to the government and if he doesn't
within the time prescribed, he is viola
tor of the law, and the government will
60 to him with its penalties.
Seth w. Jones, Collector of Interna
Revenue, Portsmouth, N. H., is collector
of the District of New Hampshire, which
comprises the States of Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont
The collector suggests that everybody
start figuring up now his income and eX-
penses SO as to be ready with the figures
when the expert arrives. Expenses, how
ever, don't mean family expenses, money
used to pay off the principal of a debt,
new machinery, buildings. or anything
like that. They mean what you spend in
making your money, interest, taxes paid,
hired help, amount paid for goods sold,
seed, stock bought for feeding, rent lex
cept for your dwelling) etc. Income in
cludes about every dollar you receive.
The government representative will be
in Belfast Feb Is, IA, Is and 16; in Sears
port Feb. 10; in Stockton Springs Feb. 49,;
in Frankfort Feb. 20; and Winterport
Feb. q.
SETH w. JONES, Collector.