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Show iififirrmw-- a ) Sun Chronicle, February Saving fuel When paying taxes to the IRS, dc While there will be suf- ficient supplies of heating oil this winter, conservation is still important for two reasons: it may prevent future shortages and save consumer dollars. continued from page I People do a lot of little rituals for good luck. w salt over their They shoulders, rnock on wood, rub a rabbit's foot til that's so lucky, how come the rabbit lost it?) and hang horseshoes over doors While ineffective, these th-o- practices are harmless-unles- s, of course, the horseshoe falls on someone's head. Insulation in the wall can be like money in the bank. Thats the word from the National Oil Jobbers Council, representative of the nations heating-oi- l distributors. The Council suggests these conservation measures: Reduce the fire rate of your burner. During the era of abundant, cheap oil, burners were oversized. Result: wasted oil. A 25 percent reduction in the achieved with firing rate adjustments made by oil supplier service personnel can mean an eight percent energy savings. Improve burner efficiency. A clean burner is a more burner. This includes removing soot from the heat exchanger and sealing the unit to prevent excess air from entering the combustion chamber. Turn down your thermostat. A convenient way to save energy and money, especially if youre away from home during the day, is to lower your thermostat. Also, have it down when youre asleep. Have new equipment installed now. Modern technology is geared to saving cost-efficie- This is the time ol year when Utahns should do some other things for good luck-su- ch as using the envelopes the IRS sends them with heir tax return package; labels on using the peel-of- f the returns when they mail them to the IRS; and using the forms IRS sends them. If they do, the IRS can process their refunds quickly and correctly. Wise went on to say there is no way the IRS can pre- determine which tax returns are to be audited. The IRS is like a business. We have to get a decent return for our ininvestment no pun tended so we audit those returns where it appears we are going to collect enough additional taxes to pay what it costs the IRS to make the audit. You cant tell that until you look at the returns, he said. The IRS also does random audits to verify their methods used in selecting other returns for audit, but1 these are fairly small in number and are determined by chance. The problem is, many taxpayers don't use any of these things and it costs millions in taxpayer dollars. It costs money to buy the envelopes and print the forms and extra dollars to process returns received without the labels. Apparently some Utahns erroneously on the something label or form about an audit. believe The forms we send out are identical. Only the so are called tax packages varied and thats because we send each taxpayer what we think they need to complete a return. If a person filed a farm return last year, well send them a package wdth all the forms a farmer needs to complete the tax return this year. And if it was a short form, then we send that, Wise said. As for the envelopes, Wise envelope, bring said they are coded so they can be machine sorted according to type of return and the area they come from. When the IRS envelopes arent used, then the mail is hand sorted and that takes more time and tax dollars. "Its easier for the people who sort returns to work with only one kind of return, if possible, and t hat s w hy w e would like to be able to machine sort the mail first, he explained. Theres nothing very ominous about the labels either according to Wise. The two letters in the corner are upper computer shorthand for the taxpayers name. The IRS verifies the correct account w ith just the two letters and the taxleft-han- d payers social It c0! exa1 guess at an address and it could be enough to throw something out of kilter, ise said Currently only about 40 per cent of Utah taxpayers use the labels ise says he doesn't know what the IRS can do to increase usage of the label, but some measures will have to le taken. "H just isnt practical to continue spending millions of tax dollars each year in lor ake ClK !l Ids'; T1 tells U'nnt imt i..(k.lg' the IX main! mm I In mi. I: he A 'lii' into with pac ml I.ickagc imms plus 'i.l I', Package 2 Scln h. :i II' ht III '!,( ,1 -- Sc hi n I', ili,ii's needed hy people con t to lelurn. ix Kan1 pm the or - Ins he mil 4 ape and in m : ir i Tel. lrr" he pointed out. were hoping is that taxpay ers will realize that as lar as good luck goes, its better to rub the peel-of- f label onto their return than it is to rul) a rabbit's foot, ise concluded. elund i security number. If the label isnt used, the IRS has to enter everything on the first three lines of the return, Wise said. That takes more time and theres also more chance ol an error being made that could delay a refund for weeks. He went on to explain that the D 87 or D and any other two numbers simply identifies the district the WE ARE NOW OPEN FOR BREAKFAST. HOURS: 6 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. (2 blocks past Freeport Center) J&Js... Home of the Nei GREENERY PROFESSIONALS neum too slow i p4 stimu-- late" s own natural rhy- teceb'v mgm bacx over--i to you te right mnocCly q com-Th.-- form- it s whv they ' wore, 0 r: ox 71 o emight I ax nets' Foi Take EX-LA- X FOR VALENTINES DAY Homme Town F iresudly to serv is absolutely nothing on the tax forms, peel-of- f labels or evelopes the IRS sends taxpayers that can cause them to be audited, stated Roland V. Wise, Salt Lake City District Director. 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