The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-15
EXPERTS TO HELP ON
INCOME TAX LISTS
Government Will Send Out Men to As
sist in Filling Out the Trouble
some Blanks

PORTSMOUTH, \. H., Dee. ID
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
20 hunt up these men, who will be sent |
INTO every country seat town, and some
other towns besides, to meet the peO
pie. Postmasters, bankers and news
papers will be able TO tell you when the
government S income tax man viii be
around, and where to find him. He
will answer your questions, swear you
to the return, take your money, and re
move the wrinkles from your brow.
| Returns of income for 1917 must be
made between January l and March
l, 1918.
"The government recognizes, Col
| lector of Internal Revenue Seth W.
! tones said today, that many persons
experience a good deal of difficulty in
filing out income tax blanks. 1t recog
nizes too, that taxpayers resident at
| points where collector S Offices are not
easily accessible find it hard to get
proper instruction III the law. Next
year, when every married person living
J with wife or husband and having a net
income of $4,000, and every person UNI
married not the head of a family and
having a net income of 81 900 for the
year 1917 must make returns of income
on the form prescribed, there will be
hundreds 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 4 government
officer informed the income tax as
, signed to each district. He will spend
L hardly less than week in each coun-
= ~, and in some counties a longer time,
2 very likely in the courthouse at the
;. countvseat town. In cities where there
- are collector S branch Offices. he will
+ be there, and in other cities possibly al
e the city hall Ny office will in due
/ time advise postmasters and bankers
c and send out notices to the newspaper:
stating when the officer will be in eacl
t county. 1t will be unnecessary fol-
Y prospective taxpayers to ask my office
+ for forms on which to make returns
e The officer who visits their county vii
+ have them.
e 1T may be stated as matter o
Q general information that net income i
e the remainder after substractinj
2, expense from gross income. Personal
t family, or living expense Is not expens
Il in the meaning OF the law, the eXemp
$ tion being allowed to cover such eX
" peuses.
IS The new exemptions Of $1,000 an
'r - 900 viii add tens Of thousands t
y the number Of income taxpayers in thi
C. district, inaslnuch as practically ever
farmer, merchant, tradesman, profe:
lional man and salary worker and
great many wage workers viii be re
quired to make return and pay tax.
The law makes it the duty Of tn
taxpayer to seek out the collector
Many people assume that if an incom
1T tax form is not sent, or a governmen
G. officer does not call, they are relieve
e from making report. This is decided
le in error. II is the other way rounC
re The taxpayer has to go to the govern
g ment and If he doesn I within the tim
4 prescribed, he i violator of the Law
e and the government viii 60 to him Wit
p It's Penalties.
III Seth W. Jones, collector of intern;
RS -evenue, Portsmouth, \. H., is collectC
IS IF the district Of New Hampshir
which comprises the states of Main
t New Hampshire and Vermont.