The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-19
THE GOVERNMENT TO
SEND OUT MEN At ONCE
To Help Figure Your lnceme
Tax-New Exemptions OF
$1,000 and S2,0oe.
ewensbsro, Ky, Dee. Is, 1917.

YOU won't have to figure cut ysur
Insoms Tax all by yourself hereafter.
The Government is going to send cut
men TO help you. 1t will be vp ts
you to hunt up these men, who will
be sent into every county seat towB,
and some other towns besides, to
meet the people. PostmaStsrs, bank
ers and newspapers will be able to
tell you when the Governments In
come Tax man will be around and
where to find him. He will answer
your question, swear you to the re-
turn, take your money, and remove
the wrinkles from your brow. Re
turns OF income for 1917 must be
made between January ] and March
Il, 1918.
"The Government recognizes" Sol
Ieetor OF Internal Revenue Griffith
said today, that many persons exper-
fence a good deal of difieulty in OIL
Jag s-9t~Lnenms Tax forms It. resagl..-
ni.sS too, that taxpayers resident at
points where Collectors Offices are
not easily accessible find it hard to
get proper Instructions il thu law.
After January I, 1918, when every
married person living with wife or
husband and hsvin: net income of
$4,000, and every unmarried per
son not the head of family and haY-
in. not income of $1,000 for the
year 1917 must make return of In
come on the form prescribed, thsre
will be hundreds in every community
seeking light on the law, and help in
executing their returns. NY own and
every other collection district in the
nation will be divided into districts,
with the county as unit, and Gov
Grnm6nt Officer informed in the In
come Tax assigned to each district
He will spend hardly lass ihsn a
week in each county, and in some
counties . longer time very likely in
the court house at the county seat
town. In stiles where there are
branch OriCeS, he will be there and
in other towns and location will be
named later. Ny office will in due
time advise postmasterS and bank
srs and send out notices 10 the news
papers stating when the officer will
be in each eOunty 1t will bs un-
necessary for prospective taxpayers
to ask my orTisc for forms on which
to make returns The oreer who
visits their county will have them
e may be stated as matter OF gen
C"al information that net income is
the remainder after subtrastraeting
expenses from gross income. Per-
sonal, family or living expense is not
expense in the meaning of the law,
the exemption being allowed 10 cover
such expenses.
The new exemptions OF s zoe and
$4,000 will add tens OF thousands to
The number OF income tax payers I'm
this district, iuasmuch a. rrs ctiea
every farmer, merchant, Jradosman
man and salary worker
and great many wage workers will
be required to make return and
pay the tax. The law makes it the
duty Of the taxpayer TO seek out the
collector, Many people assume that
Il an income tax form is not sent or
a Government officer does not call,
hey are relieved from making re-
port, this is decided i'm error. It
s the other way round. The taXpay-
sr has to so to the Government and
Il he does not within the time pre-
'crihed, he is a yiolator OF the law,
md the Government will 60 after him
With its penalties.