Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-09
EVERYBODY IS .a NOW FIGURING
 INCOME TAX
In Order to Be Helpful to Public, 4 Internal Revenue Bureau
 Has Every Available !.
 :. Officer in Field. |. F. t..
SEVERE PENALTIES IF YOU
 SDELAY BEYOND MARCH IS

| ~---> l With the due date for Income Taxes only few weeks away, the collection of this far-reaching tax on 1918 in- comes has started off with a bang. Everybody is figuring income tax. Payments and sworn statements of | income must reach Internal Revenue offices on orbefore March 15, and there | are severe penalties for delinquency.
 Residents of Arkansas are required to make their returns and pay their taxes to Jack Walker, Collector of Internal Revenue, Little Rock, Ark, or to any of his deputy collectors who are now doing free advisory work oh Income Tax.
 "Pay your Income Tax by March | 15," is the slogan of the Internal Rev. l enue 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. It is.estimated that many thousands of single and married persons in this section of the Unted States who have never before made annual returns are required to do so this year.
 l Income tax returns must be made between now and March 15 by persons who come under the following classifi- cations: :. Any unmarried person whose 1918 net income was 1000 or over. Wid- ows and widowers, divorcees and rar- 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 $2,OOO or over. The income of both husband and wife must be considered, :. together with the earnings of minor children, if any.
 Revenue Bureau Offers Aid. Each person il the United States who is in either of these cla: sificatiOns must get busy at once if penalties are to be avoided. He should secure a blank Form 104O A for reporting net income up to $50GJ, or Form 104O if his net income exceeded that amount. Forms are being distributed by Collec- tors and their Deputies, also by banks. By following the instructions on the forms a correct return can be prepared at home. If 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 it's men to work right with the public to get the tax and the re- turns in. With active cooperation every tax due March 15 will be paid and every return required by law will be in the Revenue offices on time. Exemptions Allowed.
 A single person is allowed a per sonal exemption of $1 OOO. If he is sun. porting in his household relatives who are dependent upon him he may claim the status of the i,ead of family who has the same exemption as if married.
 A married person who lives with wife or husband is allowed a personal exemption of $2OOO. The head of family is entitled to claim similar personal exemption.
 An additional exemption of $2Q0' is allowed for each person under eiglit-. cen or incapable or self support who was dependent uaoFa and received his chief support from fhe taxpayer.
 A husband and "ife living together are entitled to b,i. one personal ex- emption of $2,OO0 If they make sepa- rate returifs the exemption may be claimed by either or divided.
 Accuracy Required, Absolute accuracy is necessary in making up incomesfig figures. Any per- son who is working for wages should find out exactly how much, he received during the whole year 1918. Fees, bank interest bond interest, dividends, rents received and all other items, must be reported correctly. Mere gueSses are not accepted, for they are unjust alike to thei taxpayer and the Government and defeat the proper ad- ministration of the law. @ l