The Mena weekly star., 1917-12-20
GOVERNMENT MAN 10 FIGURE TAX
Representative Will Re Sent to Each County Seat Town-Returns Must Be Made Between January and
 March 1, 1918.
Special to The star.

Special to The Star
 Little Rock, Dec. i4.-You won't have to figure out your income tax all by yourself hereafter. The gov ernment is going to send out men to help you. It will be up to you to hunt up these men, who will be sent into every county seat town, and a few of the other large towns be- sides, to meet the people. Post masters, bankers and newspapers will be able to tell you when the governments income tax man will be around. and where to find him. He will answer your questions, swear you to the returns, take your money, and remove the wrinkles from your brow. Returns of in come for 1917 must be made between January i and March |, 1918.
 The government recognizes v Collector of Internal Revenue Jack Walker said today, that many per- sons have had a good deal of diffl- culty in filling out income tax forms. It recognizes, too, that taxpayers living at points where the collect or's office is not easily accessible find it hard to get proper instruc- tion in the law During January and February when every married per- son living with wife or husband and having a net income of 5000, and every unmarried person not the head of a family and having a net income of Sl,000 for the year 1917, must make return of income on the form prescribed, there will he hun dreds in every community seeking light on the law, and help in execut- ing their returns. My own and ev- cry other collection district in the nation will be divided into sections, with the county as the unit, and a government officer. informed in the income tax law. will be assigned to each section. He will spend hardly less than a week in each county, and in some counties longer time, very likely in the court house at the county seat. In due time my office will advise postmasters and bankers and send out notices to the news papers stating when the officer will he in each county and where he may be found. Ii will be unnecessary for income tax payers to ask my or flee for forms on which to make their returns. The officer who vis- it's their county will have them.
 Tt may be stated as a matter of general information that net in come is the remainder, after sub traeting expenses from the entire gross income. Personal, family or living expense is not expense in the meaning of the law, the exemp- tion being allowed to cover such ex- penses.
 "The new exemptions of Si ,O00 and s2 .O00 will add tens of thousands to the number of income tax payers m this district, inasmuch as practical ly every farmer, merchant, trades man. professional man and salaried employee. as well as a large number of wage workers, will be required to make return and pay tax.
 The law makes il the duty of the taxpayer to seek out the collector. Many people assume that if an in come tax form is not sent, or gov ernment officer does not call, they are relieved from making report. This is decidedly an error. It IS the other way around The taxpayer has to go to the government, and II he doesn't do so within the time pre- seoihed (between January and and March Il he is yioIator of the law. and the government will go to him with it's penalties.