The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-01-16
AIDINGfARMERS
F." TO FIGURE TAX
Collector Murphy, Of DUBUQUE, Has
Issued a Form. Making It Easier
to Fill Out the Blanks
EVERY ITEM is NOW SPECIFIED
Blanks Are for Incomes Of Every
Class and the Deductions Are
Plainly Indicated.

income laA LOT tHe llOIlcll ONel5Ildu'
ows interest in the war. The forty.
seven federal officers in the field in
Iowa assisting taxpayers in the exc.
cutiOn of their returns have been
meeting daily from fifty to $50 people.
Hundreds have been unable even to
gain admittance to them. TO meet
the emergency need Collector Murphy
has devised and is issuing through the
income tax officers in the field form
on which the farmer may figure his
income and expenditures. For the
convenience and information of those
who have no such forms. here are the
questions for which you should have
answers and the, items for which you
should have figures when you call on
the income tax man:
Name: address; wife's name Gf liv-
ing); number children under IS: il
single. have you any one dependent
on you for support? II SO, give name
and relationship of each such depend
ent. Have such dependents any in
come? Amount; number acres own
ed by you: number acres rented;
number acres under cultivation; num-
Der acres owned by wife; wife's in
come. If you sold any land, put down
here; year purchased: cost; date sold:
price; was deed delivered? If con-
tract for deed was given. how much
did you receive down? If the land
sold was bought before March l, 1913.
set down here the value Of the land
on that date. If you made any per.
,at,tc I1a vNrn
ty since March /. 1913, drainage, new
buildings, etc. put down here how
much they cost. Put down here value
OF buildings, and state whether frame.
brick, tile or concrete. If you hled
returns of income for previous years.
state the total amount OF depreciation
on these buildings which you have
claimed in the returns OF income al
ready filed. ..f..t
As to Income.
Received for: Interest. rents (other
than fsEA!l hare gent llss .ktra gat man
and horse labor of the farm; hire Of
threshing outfit; machinery hired
out: crop rent (if the crops have been
sold); service of animal; road work;
wages or allowance from other busi-
ness; value of premiums won; divl-
dcnds. Received from sale of oats;
wheat; corn; barley; flax: rye; silage
and roughase: clover seed; alfalfa;
timothy seed; potatoes: fruit; wool;
meat; cheese: garden truck; plants
and nursery stock; hay or straw;
bees or honey; poultry; hides; hogs;
cattle; sheep; horses: mules; butter;
milk or cream; eggs; lard: posts;
ties cordwood; royalty or mineral
lands. Value of produce traded at
stores for merchandise. Income from
any source not mentioned above. En-
plain.
As to Deductions.
The following must actually have
been paid in cash or it's equivalent to
be deducted: Interest Estate amount
of your indebtedness; rate of inter.
esJ taxes (but not income taxes or
taxes for special improvements) in.
surance on farm buildings (but not
on homestead), and on crop and live
stock: hired help (wages paid your
own minor children may not be de-
ducted): tools used up in year or
two; blacksmith expense; veterinary
expense: paid for service Of breeding
animals; for filling silO: for grinding
feed: for threshing; cash rental paid
for land; medicines for stock; stock
regulators; rent paid for buildings
(but not for dwelling house); cash
rent paid for cows; repairs to farm
buildings anh machinery, but not to
dwelling house (if claims for repairs
is made, the amount claimed must be
deducted from the amount of depre.
citation estimated to have occurred
during the year, and the remainder
will be allowed as a depreciation
charge); depreciation on farm build
ings and machinery, but not on dwell
ing house Value of buildings and ma
chinery. The rate of depreciation
claimed; other expenses not listed
above write down amounts and en-
plantations here or on a separate piece
of paper).
Bought and paid for during the
year; feed seed; salt for cattle;
horses for resale: cattle for feeding;
hogs; sheep; silage and roughage
bought; ice bought for milk; fertiliz-
er: twine: grease; oil and gasoline
bought for farm machinery; cotton.
seed oil; oil meal. Losses: Buildings
destroyed; livestock lost (do not in
clude stock raised on the FARM; less
insurance or other compensation. re-
ceived. If you included your wife's
income in your return, enter any eX.
pense connected with such income:
Explain each item. Contributions or
gifts actually made within the year to
corporations or associations, organ
ized and operated exclusively for re-
ligious, charitable, scientific or edu.
cational purposes. or to societies for
nr fN n,
or animals, to an amount not in eX-
cess of Is per centuln of your taxable
net income write down names and
"The president may think that he
needs no help beyond the cabinet as
constituted" says the Marshalltown
Times-Republican, but the country is
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