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Show Many Thousands of Utah Residents To Pay Tax Because Utah's prevailing wages were, on the whole, higher and farm prices better in 1941 than in former years, and for other reasons, rea-sons, state tax commission auditors audi-tors believe many thousands of Utah residents will be required by law to make income tax returns this year who have never filed before in this state. Under the state law, returns are delinquent after Monday, Mar. 16, 1942. The tax,, if any, is payable at the time the return is filed. Interest may be charged and penalties pen-alties imposed if the. return is not in or if the tax is not paid by March 16. No One Excused The fact that he has received no income tax blank from the tax commission through the mail excuses ex-cuses no one from his liability under the income tax law. The Utah statute requires the following follow-ing to file: (1) Every resident having a net income for the taxable year of $600 or over, if single, or if (Continued on page three) Income Tax Data (Continued from First Page) married and not living with husband hus-band or wife; (2) Every resident having a net income for the taxable year of $1200 or over, if married and living with husband or wife; and (3) Every resident having a gross income for the taxable year of $2500 or over, regardless of the amount of his net income." The average employee, whether working for wages . or salary, finds his "net income" so close to his "gross" or total income that he is usually obliged to file if his income from all sources in 1941 was $600 or more and he is single; or if his total income was $1200 or more and he is married. For most taxpayers, the "taxable years" is the calendar year, and for such, the last filing date in 1942 is March 16, unless extension is applied for and granted. You are a "resident" in the eyes of the state, income tax law, if you were "domiciled" in Utah that is, if you "made your home" here for any part of 1941; or if you had a "place of abode" here and spent in the aggregate six months or more in Utah, even though your "domicile" was in some other state or nation. Change of Residence. Persons claiming change of residence resi-dence during the year may be required re-quired to make a "declaration of residence" on a form obtainable from the state tax commission at its main or branch offices. If you were a resident here for only part of the year, and had an income at an annual rate equal to or more than the minimum figures named in the law quoted above, you are required to file, even though the total you received was not as large as those minimum mini-mum figures. Employees at any of the offices of the tax commission will furnish furn-ish information on questions that may puzzle the resident making his income tax report, or inquiry may be made by mail. The commission com-mission has branch offices at Cedar City, Richfield, Price, Provo, Ogden and Logan. The main office of-fice is at the State Capitol, Salt Lake City. |