The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-03
An INCOME TAX EXPERT
WILL VISIT THE COUNTY
WILL MAKE CLEAR ALL iNTRicA'
ClES OF LAW AND TAKE
YOUR MONEY.

According to a correspondent at
Helena, headquarters of the internal
revenue collector for this district, you
won't have to figure out your own in
come 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 peo-
nile. Postmasters, bankers and news
papers 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 return, take Your money, and
remove the wrinkles from your brow.
Returns OF income for 1917 must be
made between January 1 and March l.,
1918.
Who Must Pay.
"The government recognizes" Col
lector of Internal Revenue w. C. Wha-
lev said, that many persons expert
d
out income tax forms. 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 shusband and having net in
come of $4,000 and every unmarried
person not the head of family and
having net income of $1,000 for the
year 1917, must make return of in
come on the form prescribed, 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 a
government officer informed in the in
come tax assigned to each district He
will spend hardly less than week in
each county, and in some counties
longer time, very likely in the court
house at the county seat town. In
cities where there are collectors
branch offices, he will be there, and in
other cities possibly at the city hall.
My office will in due time advise post
masters and bankers and send out no.
tees 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 returns. The Off
Ger who visits their county will have
them.
Net Income Defined.
ut may be stated as a matter of
general information that net income
is the remainder after subtracting ex-
penses from gross income. Personal,
family or living expense is not eX-
pense in the meaning of the law, the
exemption being allowed to cover such
expense.
THE new exemptions 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.
1.-THE law makes it the duty of the
taxpayer 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 govern
ment and if he doesn't within the time
prescribed, he is a violator of the law
and the government will go to him
with it's penalties"