Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-03-12
INCOME TAX
Returns DUE
Business Hen Farmers andWage
Workers Must File Schedules
e income for 1919.
MARCH IS LAST FILING DATE.
Net incomes Of $1,000 or ever, If Sin
gle; or $1,000 or Over If Married,
Must Be Reported.

Tile 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 a net in
come for 1919 amounting 10:
$1,000 or over, II single; or II mar
ried and living apart from wife Tor
husband) or If widowed or divorced.
$1,000 or over II married and living
with wife Tor 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 q
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 joint return or In separate
returns of husband and wife.
A single person with minor depend
enfs must include the income of such
dependents.
4 minor who has net income Of
81 coo or more Is not considered a
dependent. and must file a separate
return.
Personal returns should be made on
Form l030A. unless the net income
exceeded 5000, IN which ease Form
1910 should be used
Residents Of Illinois should send re-
turns and payments TO Harry W.
Mayer. Collector Of Internal Revenue,
chleaeo, or John L. Pickering Collector
Of Internal revenue, Springfield, Ill.
How to Figure lnoome3
The best way to find out whether
one must file a return is 10 get a Form
1oi0A and follow the instructions
printed ON II. That form win seryefas
reminder of every item of income,
and If return Is due 1t tells how TO
prepare aud file It.
II IN doubt on any point as 10 income
or deductions. 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-
SOB Is making out his Income Tax re-
turn. Accuracy and completeness must
be Insisted upon. The return Is a
sworn statement. As such It must be
thorough and accurate.
salaried persons and wage earners
must ascertain the actual compensation
received Overtime, bonuses. shares In
tie profits of a business. value Of quar-
ters aud board furnished by the en-
ployef and other items which are com
pensations for services must be In
Guided.
II must be borne In mind that com
pensalion may be paid in other forms
than IN cash 4 bonus paid III 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, aud the interest upon
it Is also taxable. 4:
Other Returns Due.
Every partnership doing business In
the United States must file a return
on Form 1865: and every personal
service corporation must file similar
return.
Corporations must file annual re-
turns on Form I12o
Trustees, executors, administrators
aud others acting In fiddeIafy eapac-
lty are required to file returns. In
some cases, Form 1911 is used; in
others, Form 1910; and still others,
returns on both forms are required.
Information returns. on Forms 1909
and 1906, must be 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 fiduciary These
information returns should be for
warded directly to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue (sorting dlyision),
Na1hInotnns u r.