The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-22
EVERYBODY is
NOW FIGURING
income TAX
In Order to Be Helpful to Public,
Internal Revenue Bureau
Has Every Available
Officer in Field.
SEVERE PENAL TIES 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 bang.
Everybody is figuring income tax.
Payments and sworn statements of
income must reach Internal Revenue
offices on or before March Is, and there
are severe penalties for delinquency.
Residents of Tennessee are required
to make their returns and pay their
taxes to Edward 3. Craig, Collector of
Internal Revenue, Nashville, Temp, or
to any of his deputy collectors who
are now doing free advisory work on
Income Tax.
PAY your Income Tax by March
10" 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.
Income tax returns must be made
between now and March 10 by persons
who come under the following cIassiti-
cations:
Any unmarried person whose lois
net income was $1,000 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 boil,
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 classifications
must get busy at once If penalties ar
to be avoided He should secure {
blank Form 1910 A for reporting ne
income up to $1,000 or Form 1910 i
! his net income exceeded that amount
Forms are being distributed by Collec
tors and their Deputies, also by banks
BY following the instructions on thu
forms a correct return can be prepared
al home. II person needs advice o
aid the Deputy Collectors in the fielt
VIII 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 Is will he pail
and every return required by law vii
be in the Revenue offices on time.
Exemptions Allowed.
single person is allowed a persona
exemption of $1,000 If he is support
! ing in his household relatives who ar
I dependent upon him, he may claim til,
status of the head Of a family who ha
! the same exemption as if married.
! A married person, who lives will
wife or husband, is allowed a persona
exemption of $4,000 The head of
family is entitled to claim simila
personal exemption.
An additional exemption of 5000 I
allowed for each person under eighteel
or incapable of self support. who wa
dependent upon and received his chic
| support from the taxpayer
A husband and wife living togethe
| are entitled to but one personal eS
enption af $1,000. If they make SCI
afate returns, the exemption may b
! claimed by either or divided
Accuracy Required.
| Absolute accuracy is necessary i
making up income figures. ANY pei
son who is working for wages shout
| find out exactly how much he receive
during the whole year 1918. Fees
! bank interest, bond interest dividends
rents received, and all other item
| must be reported correctly. Mer
| guesses are not accepted, for they ar
unjust alike to the taxpayer and tn
Government, and defeat the proper &C
ministration of the law,
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