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Show mimm it ft a- Individual Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer tax-payer returns for 1975 include questions on residence intended in-tended to provide an accurate basis for equitable distribution distribu-tion of general revenue sharing shar-ing funds, according to the Office of Revenue Sharing (ORS) of the U.S. Treasury Department. SUCH FUNDS are returned by the Federal government to State and local general-purpose governments under terms of Federal revenue sharing law. The amount each government govern-ment receives is based, in part, on population and per capita income estimates made by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. THE NEW questions on the income tax form are designed to identify the taxpayer's legal residence, which may differ from his or her mailing address. Authority to ask the new questions is provided in Section WI17A of the Internal Revenue Code. The information from the residence questions will be used by the Bureau of the Census to make biennial population and per capita income in-come estimates needed to insure in-sure that Slates and communities com-munities receive Ibe amounts of general revenue sharing funds to which they are entitled. en-titled. FOR THIS REASON, all taxpayers are urged to provide the information as an assistance to their Slates and communities. The Internal Revenue Code authorizes a fine to be imposed for failure 10 provide the residence data, unless reasonable cause is shown for such failure. Information provided to the Census Bureau, under law. can be published as statistical totals only, and no information informa-tion about a person or individual in-dividual firm mav be disclosed to any person, institution, in-stitution, or government agencv. This law of confidentiality confiden-tiality under which the Bureau operates applies also to the residence data to be collected on IRS returns. THE NEW questions are labeled A. B. C, and D. and the wording of each follows: Question A -In what city, town, village, etc., do you live? f '" ue..t,n H..;, within li.c j. . ( citv. town ,-r, , a;t-Mn ri 1 and Sute u,. , ' Ouesnnrl I, lownhi, j, VJ INRIi,-klj; am! B. dir-.i : , explain ; munii ip iiifv , let- il urn ' .1 you llU' I- -t Is nutM'ii' , It'- Pla. t . : ', A. i iio k : If -...u an. , you Ir.v ', r t lniii's, n.. , to I lU-Mi ii ;! l.mcMH.r, u. !:. . explains, i;.: . liUlblliji, ... , in New l-ii. ,:X ; Kansas. M:, : , Misv.un. , , Jersey. N.-a ', , O.iMil.i, Of.,.. 't South I).:r-.M ., ; , I X1' U I is diffi. uli ii. i-. . : rt-Mdrn.e (j,..-- . st 1 u. !-,l s. fri.m Ih.-ir ,i( officials t.r t., . Bureau i'f I ; !un ) ( call coll.. I j; .' belu.--n H , n. . (! ST ) Sin::, ' 1-ridav i |