Show I i Boyles Boyle's e s Notebook ls T Tax ax N Men en Shrug Off Public Gibes j By Dr Hal l BOlle Boyle I W WASHINGTON AS G UP j r erne come om taX taxes 1 u la ii getting paroles painless now that nobody complains about the them nuch h any ny more or except t tax tax tax- 11 1 payers payer And all they object to generally general Is s that it costs th in And Anti what wha is mon money y today Money n y One son of E Erin in after s studying the calendar decided tHe whole taX program W was a f t 0 o r r e i g n plo plot against the Irish I think k its it's a a. darn shame we we weave have ave to pay all all this m money by y March 15 he wrote the Bureau of f I Internal tem 1 Revenue Its nothing but British propaganda to spoil our ur St. St Patricks Patrick's ks k's day celebration He was among the fewer fewer- I f tan ian an ianne anone one ne il in ten thousand taxpayers who I sit it down with th pe pen pi in hand e each ch March M r h to gripe at the tax collectors tors tora P There re used to be more beefing and quibbling But It has haa been cut ut down by the new short tax I forms forma and the system of withholding withholding with with- h holding I payments which removes the tho money from the taxpayer r before before be be- fore tore he eVen sees it Few Lines This year there were few midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night lines lines' of frantic citizens To avoid overtime costs costa we cl closed sed most offices at the regular tI time e and nd saved laved in overtime overtime overtime over over- time p ply pay y said a man at the b bureau reau here He added that the biggest nuisances nui nuisances nui- nui ul- ul to the collectors were taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- p payers who forgot to sign their returns and those who tried to toi i reduce d ce their pa payments ments by fudging I i on n Uncle sams Sams Sam's definition of de de- de- de Some gome to write off ft as dependents their their girl friends friends their household hou household p pets pets pets-or ts-or ts or even a a. tape tApe- worm One listed three fathers fathers- his own and those of his two wives Another put down his mother mother-in- law as a discrepancy One old lady became angry because because because be be- cause a collector refused to accept her BLIP as u a dependent after the Bill BUI collector d discovered that was a mule retired to pasture I listed him for the last two years and nobody raised a a fuss before she complained I Two Mabels rabell mother Another other woman ted he had two dependent daughters called MabeL They were twins twin she said laId I looked alike I and they so much we just j-1st decided to name them both Mabel The bureau gallantly bowed to this invincible maternal l logic It is difficult to hurl a new In Insult Insult insult In- In sult at the tax collectors collector With cherry good humor the bureau has made a scrapbook of the prize shafts aimed its w way y Some lampIes lampies samples lam lam- pIes ples One man half a shirt with a n. partial tax payment and said laid Ill send lend you the re rest t of money and the other half halt of at my shirt as soon oon asI as 88 1 can Another who asked for a 60 refund and was wu awarded 80 wrote dazedly I I am now now 65 85 years ears of age At lost I believe in Santa Claus Glaus Ominous Threat A third threatened he would vote the Republican an ticket for having to fork over taxes in an election year and concluded ominously If It the Democrats lose NewYork New NewYork NewYork York state by one vote the reap responsibility responsibility on- on will rest solely with you Beneath a lock of hair pasted on his return a taxpayer put this note You have scalped me Another affixed a lOc piece with the brief brier rebuke You got my last dime Others Othera have written I am being fair in reporting this additional income because I 1 want to pay the devil his due For three in years Ive I've come q r. r here good d dough u h. h Why Why dont don't you yoube be a a. a sport about it and nd m make c this one on the house 1 I t dont don't mind paying a tax tax- but do you have to add my social security number to io the total total total- 1 Only two things in life are certain eer- eer tain death tain-death death and taxes What I resent nt is that they dont don't come in in that order But the tax taz co collectors lectors don't dont mind the gibes Their mottO Its a 11 tree free co country try |