The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1919-02-21
EVERYBODY IS
NOW FIGURING:
INCOME TAX
In Order to Be Helpful to Public
Internal Revenue Bureau
Has Every Available
ff
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-reaching tax on 1918 In
comes has started off with a hs-g.
Everybody is figuring income tax.
Payments and sworn statements 81
Income must reach Internal Revenue
offices on or before March 10, and there
are severe penalties for delinquency.
Residents of Alabama and Missis-
sippi are required to make their re-
turns and pay their taxes to John %. /.
McNeel, Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. birmingham, Ala or to any Of
his deputy collectors who are now do
ing 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 to prepare the returns.
Who Must Make Return.
1t 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 so this year. F
! Income tax returns must be made
lbetween now and March 15 by persons
who come under the following classif-,
cations: 90 s9i
Any unmarried person whose 1918
net income was $1,000 or over. Wild
ows and widowers, >divorcees and mar
ried persons who are living apart from
their husbands or wives, are for the
purposes of the Income Tax classed
az unmarried.
] Any married person living with wife
for husband whose 1918 net income was
husband and wife must be considered,
together with the earnings Of minor
children, If any.
Revenue Bureau offers Aid.
Each person in the United States
who is in either of these classificatlons
must get busYat once II penalties are
to he avoided He should secure q
blank Form 1910 A for reporting net
income up to $1,000, or Form 1040 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 correct return can he prepared
at home. If 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 OH citizens and resi-
dents. Tile Internal Revenue Bureau
Is sending its men to work right, with
the public to get the tax and the re-
turns in. With active cooperation,
every tax due March Is will he paid
and every return re luired by law will
be In the Revenue offices on time.
Exemptions Allowed.
| A single person is allowed personal
\ exemption Of 81 900. If 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 II married. -"
/ a married person, who lives with
wife or husband is allowed a personal
exemption of $1,000. The head OF a
family is entitled to claim similar
personal exemption.
An additional exemption of 5000 is
allowed for each person under eightee
or incapable OF self support, who was
dependent upon and received his chief
support from the taxpayer.
A husband and wife living together
are entitled to but one personal ex-
emption Of $1,000. If they make sep
ar;ite returns, the exemption may be
claimed by either or divided.
Accuracy Required.
| Absolute accuracy is necessary In
/ making UP income figures. Any per-
son who is working for wages should
ind ont exactly how much he received
/ during tlle whole year 1918. Fees.
/ oank interest, bond interest, dividends,
rents received, and all other items
must he reported correctly. Mere
| gncsscs are not accepted, for they are
unjust alike to the taxpayer and the
Government and defeat the proper ad-
minstration of the law