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Show BENNETT ASKS FULL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR IRRIGATORS A bill to allow a farmer to deduct from his gross income all amounts paid to irrigation ditch companies for water assessments as-sessments was co-sponsored by Senator Wallace F. Bennett. Senator Bennett said, "I co-sponsored co-sponsored the bill during the 89th Congress also, as a result r.f the position taken by the Internal Revenue Service when agents in several cases departed depart-ed from prior practices and disallowed portions of the water assessments." Senator Bennett pointed out that "The great bulk of the assessments are for opertaion and maintenance of the canal and reservoir systems . . .Leg-iflation .Leg-iflation would clarify the situation sit-uation and provide even-handed treatment to all farmers who must irrigate their lands." , |