Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-27
MANY NOW FIGURING
THEIR INCOME TAX
In Order to Be Helpful to Public,
Internal Revenue Bureau
Has Every Available
Officer in Field.
SEVERE PENALTIES IF YOU
DELAY BEYOND MARCH IS

With the due date for Income Taxes
only few weeks away, the collection
OF this far.renchlng tax on 1918 in
comes has started of with bang
Everybody is figuring income tax.
Payments and sworn statements OF
income must reach Internal Revenue
offices on or before March -, and there
are severe penalties for delinquency.
Residents Of Oregon are required to
make their returns and pay their taxes
20 Milton A. Miller, Collector Of Inter
nal Revenue, Portland, Ore, or to any
OF his deputy collectors who are now
doing free advisory work on Income
Tax.
"Pay your Income Tax by March
49, is the slogan of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau, which has sent every
available officer Into the field TO help
the public TO understand the require
ments and 10 prepare the returns.
Who Must Make Return.
II Is estimated that many thousands
OF single and married persons in this
section Of the United States who have
never before made annual returns are
required to do 50 this year.
Income tax returns must be made
between now and March Is by persons
who come under the following classifi-
cations
Any unmarried person whose 1918
net income was 81 900 or over. Wild
ows and widowers, Divorces and mar
ried persons who are living apart from
their husbands or wives, are for the
purposes OF the Income Tax classed
as unmarried.
Any married person living with wife
or husband whose 1918 net income was
$1,000 or over. TIE income of both
husband and wife must be considered
children, II any.
Revenue Bureau Offers Aid.
, Zach person In the United State:
who is In either of these claSsltication'
must get busy at once II penalties ar
10 bes avoided. He should secure 1
\ blank Form 1910 A for reporting ne
I income UP to $1,000 or Form 1910 !
4 his net income exceeded that amount
Forms are being distributed by CoileC
tors and their Deputies, also by banks
BY following the instructions on I'll
forms correct return can be prepare
at home. IL person needs advice o
n aid, the Deputy Collectors in the tiel
will furnish this without charge.
The new Revenue law places the II
come Tax duty on citizens and res
dents. The Internal Revenue Burea
is sending it's men to work right wit
the public to get the tax and the r,
turns In. With active cooperation
every tax due March Is will be pal
and every return required by law wi
be in the Revenue offices on time.
Exemptions Allowed.
A single person is allowed persons
exemption of $1,000. II he is supper
ing In his household relatives who al
dependent upon him. he may claim Il
status Of the head of family who hi
the same exemption as II married.
A married person, who lives wit
wife or husband. Is allowed Q persons
n exemption Of $1,000 The head of
d family is entitled to claim a simil,
II personal exemption.
An additional exemption of 500
allowed for each person under eighte'
or Incapable Of self support, who w
dependent upon and received his chi
support from the taxpayer.
III A husband and wife living togeth
are entitled to but one personal e
emption of $4,000. If they make Sc
arate returns, the eXemptlon may
claimed by either or divided.
III Accuracy Required.
Absolute accuracy is necessary
making up income figures. Any ~
son who is working for wages shou
find out exactly how much he receiv
during the whole year 1918. Fe
bank interest, bond interest, divden,
rents received, and NIL other itel
must he reported correctly. Nc
guesses are not accepted, for they .
unjust alike to the taxpayer and
Government, and defeat the proper |
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