Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-11
income TAX
RETURNS DUE.
Business Men, Farmers andWage
Workers Must File Schedules
of Income for 1919.
MARCH is LAST FILING DATE.
Net Incomes of $1,000 or over, if Sim
gle; or $4,000 or over if Married,
Must Be Reported.

The Income Tax imposed by Act
of Congress on earnings of the year
1919 is now being collected.
Returns under oath must be made
on or before March Is by every citi-
zen and resident who had net in
come for 1919 amounting to-;
$1,000 OF over, If single; or II mar
ried and living apart from wife Cor
husband); or if widowed or divorced
$1,000 or over, If married and living
with wife Cor husband).
The status of the person on the last
day of the year fixes the status for
the year with respect to the above
requirements.
Under any of these circumstances n
return must be made, even though
no tax is due.
Husband and wife must consider
the income of both, plus that of de-
pendent minor children, in meeting
this requirement; and, if sufficient to
require return, all items must be
shown in a joint return or in separate
returns of husband and wife.
A single person with minor depend
ents must include the income of such
dependents.
A minor who has net income of
$1,000 or more is not considered a
dependent, and must file separate
return.
Personal returns should be made on
Form 1040A, unless the net income
exceeded $1,000, in which case Form
1040 should be used.
Residents of Iowa should file their
returns with, and make payments
of Income Tax to, Louis Murphy,
Collector of Internal Revenue, Du-
buQue, Iowa.
How to Figure Income.
The best way to find out whether
one must file return is to get Form
1O40A and follow the instructions
printed on it. That form will serve as
a reminder Of every item of income,
and il return is due 1t tells how to
prepare and file it.
If in doubt on any point as to income
or deductions, a person may secure free
advice and aid from the nearest Inter-
nal Revenue Office
Guesswork estimates and other hit
or-miss methods are barred when per-
son is making out his Income Tax re-
turn. Accuracy and completeness must
be insisted upon. The return is
sworn statement AS such it must he
thorough and accurate.
Salared persons and wage earners
must ascertain the actual compensation
received. Overtime bonuses, shares in
the profits of a business, value of quar-
ters and board furnished by the en-
ployer and other items which are com
pensations for services must be in
Guided.
1t must be borne in mind that com
pensation may be paid in other forms
than in cash bonus paid in Liberty
Bonds is taxable at the market value
of the bonds. A note received in pay
ment for services is taxable income at
its face value, and the interest upon
it is also taxable.
Other Returns Due.
livery partnership dOlliS uuSliieSS III
the United States must file return
on Form 1865; and every personal
service corporation must file similar
return.
Corporations must file annual re-
turns on Form 1920.
Trustees, executors, administrators
and others acting in fiduciary capac-
ity are required to file returns In
some cases, Form l04l is used; in
others, Form 1910; and still others,
! returns on both forms are required
Information returns, on Forms 1888
and 1896, must he filed by every or
ganization, firm or person who paid,
during 1919, an amount of $1,000 in
salary, wages, interest, rent, or other
| fixed or determinable income to an
other person, partnership. personal
service corporation or tiduciary. These
| information returns should be for
warded directly TO the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue (sorting division
\ Washington, d. c.