The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-03-01
EVERYBODY IS
NOW FIGURING
INCOME TAX
In Order to Be Helpful to Public,
Internal Revenue Bureau
Has Every Available
Officer in Field.
SEVERE PENALTIES III YOU
DELAY BEYOND MARCH IS

With the due date for Income Taxes
only few weeks away, the collection
Of this far-reaching tax on 1918 In
CONES has started or with bang.
Everybody is figuring income tax.
Payments and sworn statements Of
Income must reach Internal Revenue
offices on or before March L. nnd there
are severe penalties for delinquency.
Residents % Texas are required TO
make their returns and pay their taxes
to Alexander s. W1lker. Collector Of
Internal Revenue, Austin. Tex, or 60
deputy collectors who are now
doing free advisory work on Income
Tax.
"Pay your Income Tax by March
15," Is the slogan of the InternaI Reve-
nue. Bureau, which has sent every
available officer into the field TO help
the public TO understand the require
ments and to prepare the returns.
Who Must Make Return.
II is estimated that mans tf,Js.sandy
Of single and married persons In this
section of the United States who have
never before made annual returns are
required to do so this year.
Income tax returns must be made
between now and March Is by persons
who come under the following classifj-
cations:
Any unmarried person whose 1913
net income was $1,000 or over Wild
ows and widowers, Divorces and msy-
rled persons who are living apart from
their husbands or wives, are for the
purposes OF the Income Tax Chased
as unmarried,
Any married person living with wife
or husband whose 1918 net income WIS
$1,000 or over. Ire income Of both
husband and wife. must be considered.
together with the earnings Of minor
children. II any.
Revenue Bureau Oilers Aid.
Each person in the United Stufes
who is In either of these Considerations
must get busy at once II penalties are
to be avoided. He should secure q
blink Form 1910 A for reporting net
income up TO 5000, or Form 1910 II
his net Income exceeded that amount.
Forms are being distributed BY COlIee-
tors and their Deputies, also by. banks.
BY following the instructions on the
forms correct return can be prepared
at home. II a person needs advice or
aid, the Deputy Collectors in the field
will furnish this without charge.
The new Revenue law places the In
come Tax duty on citizens and resi-
dents The Internal Revenue Bureau
is sending its men to work right Will,
the public TO get the tax and the re-
turns IN. With active cooperation.
every tax due March 10 win be paid
and every return required by law win
be In the Revenue Offices on time.
Exemptions Allowed.
A single person is allowed personal
exemption Of $1,000 II he is support
ing in his household relatives who are
dependent upon him. he may claim the
status of the head of family who has
the same exemption as'if married
A married person, who lives With
WiAe UT huSDanu, - allOWeu pcrSOndJ
exemption of $1,000. The head u 81
family is entitled TO claim a similar
personal exemption.
An additional exemption Of 500 70
allowed for each person under eighteen
or incapable Of self support, who was
dependent upon and received his chief
support fYoIn the taxpayer.
a husband and wife living together
arc entitled 70 hut one reT-~5ai ~-s-
emplion Of 5000 II ihcy ma.e y
nTate returns, the ez '-,Diiau M. be
claimed by either or c. ..-ll.
Accuracy Requires.
Absolute accuracy Is reiTssary n
making up income figures. Any per-
son who Is working for wages slIe'1Jd
find cut exactly how mueh lie received
during the whole year 1vlS- F'eeS.
bank interest, bond interest, dFpideDsIs-
rents received, and MI other iieIReA
must be reported cOsTeetiy. 3ycre
guesses arr not accepted, for theT srg-
unjust alike 10 the taxpayer RDd the
Government, and defeat the proper ad--
miniStrntiOn n tha law