The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-12-22
INTERESTING AND WELCOME
News TO MANY
No Need to Worry Now-Gov-
eminent Is to Furnish Blanks
And Agent to Personally As
sist You to Figure Out Your
Own Income Tax

Own Income Tax
The SENTINEL is in receipt of the
following official information from
Justus Wardell. Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue for this district:
San Francisco, December Is, 1917.
You won't have to figure out your
own income tax all by yourself here
after. 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. ~Postmasters,
bankers and newspapers will be able
to tell you when the Government in
come tax man will be around, and
where to find him. He. will an
swer 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
l, 1918.
1.-The Government recognizes"
Collector of Internal Revenue War
dell said to-day, that many persons
experience a good deal of difficulty
in filling out income tax forms. 1t
recognizes too. that taxpayers resi-
dent at points where collectors offices
are not easily accessible find it hard
to get proper instruction in the law.
Next year, when every married per-
son living with wife or husband and
and having a net income of $1,000,
and every unmarried person not the
head of the family and having a net
income of $1,000 for the year 1917
must make return of income on the
form prescribed, there will be hun
dreds in every community seeking
light on the law, and help in execut-
ing their returns. My own and every
other collection district in the Nation
will be divided into districts. with
the county as the unit, and a Govern
ment officer informed in the income
tax assigned to each district. He
will spend hardly less than a week in
each county. and in some counties a
longer time. very likely in the court
house at the county seat town. In
cities where . there r collectors
branch offices, he will be there, and
in other cities possibly at the city
hall. My office will in due time adj
wise postmasters and bankers and
send out notices to the newspapers
stating when the officer will be in
each county. 1t will be unnecessary
for prospective taxpayers to ask my
office for forms on which to make re-
turns. The officer who visits their
county will have them.
st may be stated as a matter of
general information, that met in
come is the remainder after sub
tracing expenses from gross in
come. Personal. family, or living
expense is not expense in the mean
ing of the law, the exemption being
allowed to cover such expense.
The new exemption of $1,000 and
$4,000 will add tens of thousands to
the number of income taxpayers in
this district, inasmuch as practically
every farmer, merchant, tradesman,
professional man and salary worker
and a great many wage workers will
be required to make return and pay
tax.
The law makes it the duty of the
taxpayer to seek out the collector.
Many people assume that if an in
come tax form is not sent, or a Gov
eminent 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 a violator of the law. and the
Government will go to him with its
penalties"
The following Eureka County