The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-01-11
WHAT WAS YOUR INCOME FOR
YEAR-ALL MUST REPORT
Single Men Making $50 Per Day
Are Required to File Re-
port With Uncle Sam

Have you figured up your income
for the year? If you havent-get
busy because Uncle Sam wants to
know what it is. He has a big war
on his hands and it takes money to
run it. 1t is your war, too and he
expects that you will be ready and
willing to pay your share.
The income tax for 1917 is going
to affect great majority of the
wage earners of the country and
each man should know what he has
earned for the year. If you are
single man and your income is more
than 1000 a year you must pay a
tax. IF you are married man and
your income is more than $4,000 you
must pay tax.
Uncle Sam figures that if you are
single you are entitled to $1,000
year for living expenses and If you
are married he feels that $4,000 is
lust enough to take care of yourself
and family without giving him any
help to win the war. He is putting
it up to every man and woman in
the country to do something.
You will not pay tax if you are
single and receive only $1,000 or are
married and receive only $4,000. But
you will pay a tax on everything
above those sums. Moreover, even
if you are married and you receive
less than $4,000 but more than ST.
900 you must make report to the
collector of internal revenue and you
must swear to this report. Every
person receiving 81 900 year must
make a return before March 1st
next as to what his income was dur
ing 1917. The tax must be paid be-
fore June 1, 1918.
The man who receives $3.50 day
if he in single is liable to a tax. If
he worked steadily six days week
for 81 weeks he would earn $1,092
But he would not have to. pay tax
on all that sum. He would pay a
tax on $92 only. The tax would be
two per cent of S92 or $1.84
The 500 a week clerk would re-
ceive $1,040 a year and if single
would pay two per cent of $40 or 80
cent. The single man pays two per
cent on all he receives above 81 200
a year and the married man two
per cent on all he receives above
$4,000 a year.
A single woman must also pay a
tax on her earnings and if mar
ried woman if she is a wage Garner
must also pay. If the income re-
ceived by married persons living to-
gether is less than $4,000 no return
or report need be made to the col
lector.
Under the old law single men
were allowed an untaXable income
of $4,000 a year and married men
$4,000. Under the new law single
man receiving $4,000 a year will
pay two per cent on $4,000 or $40
and the married man with $4,000
will pay two per cent on 1000 or
$40. Under the old law the incomes
of married men were taxed two per
cent for all over $4,000. Under the
new law an additional tax of two
per cent is charged. So the mar
ried man with an income of $4,000
will pay the old tax of two per cent
on $1,000 which is the amount in eX-
cess of the old exemption of $4,000.
This would be $50. In addition un-
der the new law he will pay two per
cent on $4,000 the amount in excess
of the new $4,000 exemption. This
two per cent on $4,000 would be $50
Adding the $50 tax on $1,000 this
makes the $4,000 man pay $50 alto
gether on his income.
The law put an additional tax or
surtaX of one per cent on amounts
over $4,000 and not over $500. A
two per cent surtax is added above
$500 and this is increased with the
income.
1t is not only compulsory re-
quirement of law to pay the income
tax but it is a patriotic duty. To
paraphrase Nelson, "Uncle Sam eX-
poets every man to do his duty"
Everyone should begin now to fix up
his accounts and see just what his
or her income is. The government
will require a full report from every
one married or single receiving more
than 81 900 a year.
A. L. Kempster, manager of the