The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-01-17
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN
PERSONAL REPORTS.
FOR ASSISTANCE or TAX PAYER
Interest in income Tax overshadows
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field in Iowa assisting taxpayers il
the execution of their returns have
been meeting daily from so to 15(
people. Hundreds have been unable
even to gain admittance to them. Tc
meet the emergency need question
Murphy has devised and is issuing
through the income tax officers in the
field form on which the family may
figure his income and expenditures
For the convenience and information
here are questions for which you
should have answers and the items
fer which you should have figures
when you, call on the income tax man.
Name; Address; Wife's Name tif
Eving); Number of children under 10;
If single, have you anyone dependent
or you for support? If SO give name
and relationship of each such depend
ent Have such dependents any in
ccme? Amount; No. acres owned by
yGu No. acres rented; No. acres I'M
der cultivation; No. acres owned by
wife; Wife's income. II you sold any
land put down here. Year purchased;
Cost; Date sold; Price; Was deed de-
en-, how much did you receive down?
Inf the land sold was bought before
March /, 1918, set down here the val
ue OF the land on that date. II you
made any permanent improvements
on the property since March l, 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 filed returns of in
come for previous years, state the
total amount of depreciation on these
buildings which you have claimed in
the returns of income already filed
4 income.
Received for; interest, rents (other
than crop-share remit; hire man and
horse labor off the farm; hire of
| threshing outfit; machinery hired out;
crop rent Gf the crops have been
Sold; service of animals; road work;
wages or allowance from other bust
ness; value of premiums won; divi-
deads. Received from sale of oats;
wheat; corn; barley; flax; rye; siiagc
and roughage; 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; cat
tie; 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 Explain.
Deductions.
The following must actually have
been paid in cash or it's equivalent to
be deducted: Interest Statement OF
; youl, Indebtedness; rate Of INTEREST,";
Taxes (but not income taxes or taxes
for special improvements) Insurance
on farm buildings (but not on home
stead), and on crop and live stock;
Hired help (wages paid your own mi
nor children may not be deducted) !;
Tools used up in year o. two; El..G..-
smith expense; VCtcrin"t5 OK As";
Paid for service Of breeding, ar.@l@i5;
For filling silo; for grinding feed; for
: threshing; cash rental paid for land;
, medicined for stock; stock regulat-
ors; rent paid for buildings (but not
: for dwelling house,; cash rent paid
for cows repairs TO farm buildings
and machinery, but not to dwelling
house OF claim for repairs is made
the amount claimed must be deducted
from the amount of depreciation esti
mated to have occurred during the
year, and the remainder will be al
lowed as a depreciation CHARGE; De
pre citation on farm buildings and ma
chinery, but not on dwelling house
value of buildings and machinery
Rate of depreciation claimed; Other
expenses not listed above (write dowI
amounts and explanations here or OF
separate sheet of paper):
l. Bought and paid for during tn'
!. year: feed; seed; salt for cattle
!. horses for resale; cattle for feeding
hoys; sheep; silage and roughag'
bought; ice bought for milk; fertile
er; Irvine; grease, oil and gasoline
Z bought for farm machinery; common
seed oil; oil meal.-Losses: Building
> destroyed; Live Stock lost lido not IN
: clude stock raised on the farm; Les
= insurance on other compensation re
. ceived. If you included your wife's IN
Come in your return, enter any eA
pense connected with such income
Explain each item; Contributions o
! gifts actually made within the year =
: corporations or associations organize
h and operated exclusively for religious
4 Charitable. scientific or educationa
purposes. or to societies for the pr