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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER. UTAH Simplified Rules Given to Aid in Making Out 1944 Tax Returns on New Forms Found in Filling Out Irieome Blanks tj is' (EDITOR'S NOTE: The article low wis prepared us a service to the renders of this neuspuper in an effort to assist in the filing of income tax returns as required by law. While the forms have been simplified, it is urged thai returns be filed as far in advance of March 15 us possible.) Ifelenscd by Weslorn Newsoaper Union. VV - ' ' jrZj ., - s X ' 1 St ' ; .' tax returns? didn't believe it, because the treasury reminds us that the law requires an income tax return not later than We hope you March 15th from every person (even children) who had 1944. $500 or more income in The truth is that congress and the treasury simplified the er states, moreover, a bit, but income tax forms n if rrfti WIT.-- . Aid Will Be Given Taxpayer. a combined re turn can be made on a withholding receipt only if their combined income is within the limits mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph. If husband and wife file a combined return on a withholding receipt, their tax will be figured either on a separate or joint basis, whichever is to their advantage. Q. Who can use the short-for- I quite still insist on the annual March 15 accounting between you and Uncle Sam. Altogether, the treasury figures that about 50,000,000 Americans must file 1944 returns. A few million, including many farmers, have already got the chore outof the way by filing their returns January 15. Those early-bird- s filed early so as to combine the filing of their "re- Form 1040? A. Anyone whose income was less turns" with the filing of their "Decthan $5,000. larations of Estimated Tax," thus Who Form uses the long-forQ. 1944 all tax income their winding up 1010? chores. But most of us still have A. The long-formust be used by our returns to fill out and file beanyone whose income in 1944 was tween now and March 15. Here are the answers to some of $5,000 or more, and by anyone who your inevitable questions about the claims more deductions (for charities, etc.) than the standard allowjob: (). What kinds of forms or blanks ance of about 10 per cent which is do we use? given automatically to taxpayers filor the A. There are two forms. One is ing withholding receipts the withholding receipt, officially short-forQ. Can I save money by using the called Form W-- (Rev.), which your instead of the other employer gives you if you have long-forbeen working for wages from which forms? A. That depends on your deducincome tax was withheld. The other blank, the standard Form 1040, is tions. If you use the withholding renot being mailed out generally this ceipt or the short-form- , you can- m m 2 BEFORE TAXES IN 0939 -- 100) A. As used in the income tax blanks, income means all kinds of income, including wages, (or salaries), dividends, interest, business profits, rental profits, and profits on selling or trading securities or other property. For tax purposes, however, "income" does NOT include certain items specifically exempted by law, such as the first $1,500 of active service pay for members of the armed forces and their mustering-ou- t payment when discharged. Also exempted is the government's contribution to monthly family allowances to relatives of servicemen, social security benefits, gifts, bequests and inheritances, and amounts received as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy by reason of the death of the insured person. Q. What kind of taxes do we pay? A. The 1944 income tax is made up of two kinds of tax. There is a "normal tax" (formerly called "victory tax") at the rate of 3 per cent, and a "surtax" (formerly called "income tax") at rates ranging from 20 to 91 per cent. Q. What kind of exemptions do we get from these taxes? A. For normal tax, a taxpayer filing a separate return is allowed only a flat exemption of $500. If husband and wife file a joint return and each had at least $500 income, exthey receive a joint normal-taemption of $1,000. If they file a joint return, and one of them had less than $500 income, the joint normal-ta- x exemption would be $500 plus the actual amount of the smaller income. For normal tax, there is no exemption for dependents. For surtax, you may get exemptions of $500 for yourself, plus $500 for your wife (or husband), plus $500 for each of your dependents. However, you can claim an exemption for your wife (or husband) only if you file a joint return with her (or him), or if she (or he) had no taxable income and was not a dependent of another taxpayer. U.S.A. g i ioo 9 S 8 S 1 I A I Mm catotpf tras uiiiLix cas sfl CORPORATIONS 19391943 FARMERS year, but copies should be easily tainable from local collectors' obof- fices, banks, post offices, and employers. Q. I hear there are three ways of making a return this year. Is that true?' A. Yes. You can use Form 1040 as either a short-foror a long-forreturn. That makes two methods of filing. The third method, which is one of the major simplifications in the new law, is to use the withholding receipt. Q. Do we have to fill out both the withholding receipt and Form 1010? A. No. If you are eligible to use the withholding receipt as your return and desire to do so, forget about Form 1040. If you fill out Form 1040, attach your withholding receipts to the form, but do not fill out the receipts. Q. Is this standard allowance exactly 10 per cent? A. The tax on a withholding reis taken from ceipt or a short-fora table in which the tax and deductions are averaged for income brackets, such as from $2,000 to $2,025, from $2,025 to $2,050, etc. The 10 per cent allowance and the tax are figured In the middle of each I ioo a mm MXItLLELsB mM 1939 1943 194 ff i II 15 rrnioo S 153 1939 1943 wage earner whose total income was less than $5,000, provided not more than $100 of his income came from dividends, interest and wages from which no tax was withheld, and all the remainder of his income was from wages from which tax was withheld. However, in the community properly states of Arizona, California. Idaho, Louisiana. Nevada, New Mexico. Texas and Washington, a withholding receipt cannot be used by a husband or wife alone. In those states, married couples can use the withholding receipt only as a "combined return." In those and all oth- - I3 I ii fla 1939 l? 1943 INDUSTRIAL PROPRIETORS WORKERS not take any deductions for nonbusiness items such as charitable contributions, interest, taxes, medical expenses, and casualty losses, but receive instead a standard allowance equal to about 10 per cent of your income. For instance, if your income last year was $4,425, and you use your withholding receipt or a short-form- , your tax is automatically figured as if you had $442.50 of deductions. Now, in this example, if your actual deductions were less than $442.50, it would save you money to use your withholding If your receipt or a short-foractual deductions were more than $442.50, it would save you monty to make a long-forreturn on Form 1040. Q. How do I fill out a withholding receipt? A. Simply answer the few questions about your income and exemptions which are printed on the front and back of the receipt. Be sure to correct any mistake In your name and address which your employer has already written on your receipt. Sign the receipt. If you have more than one receipt, fill out only the last one but be sure to attach x TELEFACT Q. Who is allowed to use a withA. Any II ioo BUSINESS bracket. holding receipt as a return? (U the others. Then mail the receipt or receipts to the collector of internal revenue in your district. That's all. Don't send any money if you file this wayt because the collector will figure your tax, give you credit for amounts already paid, and then either send you a bill if you owe more or a refund check if you have overpaid. Q. How do I fill out a short-form- ? A. Get a copy of Form 1040. If all your income was from wages, dividends and Interest, you write only on page 1, and find your tax from the table on page 2. If you had other income for instance, from a farm, a business, rental property, annuities, etc.) you also fill in part of page 3. Page 3 is printed on the back of page 1, so you can tear off and throw away the other half of the form. That's why it is called a short-forW7hen you file Form 1040, and find (in item 8, page 1) that you still owe some tax, you must pay that amount in full at the same time you file your return. Q. What do you mean by the word "income"? TEIEFACT 5e U.S. PER CAPITA TAXES REACHES NEW HIGH J357 r- - S29I $261 im I s Usually, sh can. Since the first $1,5)0 of military pay is exempt from tax and since most men earn less than that amount in the armed lortes, they are considered to have no income, as far as the tax laws are concerned. Therefore, their wives can claim exemptions for them unless their army pay A. d $1500. whose plot to kidThe was interrupted is Grable nap Betty d Williams. She still has a guard, and her father and husband tote gats. . . . The O.D.T. will order all dining cars removed from choo-chotraveling less than 350 miles. . . . The Newspaper Guild will invade the radio field (to organize it) next Summer. The colyum forwarded several letbond buyers who rumors that enemy-plante- d savings bonds wouldn't be redeemed in accordance with their terms. . . . The U. S. Treasury debunks the rumors with this statement: "The rumors are absolutely without foundation. The U. S. Gov't has never defaulted in the payment of its debts. Since the Congress has ample power to provide for meeting all obligations of the gov't (when due) there can be no doubt that its promise to pay its obligations (when due) will be carried out. Undoubtedly subversive activity in this country is responsible for spreading of such misinformation. By making known the true facts you could do much to discount the wholly unfounded rumors. D. W. Bell, Treasury Dep't, Washington." ters from worried heard WSI USUI USA ' iHli rut UST G- - "IIAN YUi lMj UST YfAI T(A Canada Q. What are the rules for claiming exemption for dependents? A. You are entitled to an exemption for any close relative, provided you furnished more than f of his or her support during 1944. and provided he or she did not have $."00 or more in"ome of hU or her own. A dependent must also be a citizen of the. United States or a resident of the U. S Canada or Mexico. ,hiS T(AI one-hal- , Q. What should be done by a per- son whose $300? inc 11 - By Rath Wyeth Spears TTHE smart plaid curtains shown herewith match the window seat and several slip covers, and the wooden curtain pole, rings and draw cord match the dominant color in the plaid repeating the color of small cushions and lamp base. The window lets in the maximum of light and you would never guess that originally it looked like a postage stamp in the middle of The news that Donald Nelson a blank wall. At first it seemed widow would marry the young to it because curtain impossible was tipped here first on De- fixtures could not be screwed to "We this 1943, cember 13, way: metal casements or the plaster. promise to omit the name until he book shelves helped The built-iis freed. Watch for the name of that. A a foot wide was alspace next Mrs. Paul Strashon's groom. lowed at each side of the window She's a widow. He is one of Amer- so that the curtains could hang . . ica's most famed leaders." over the wall, and the painted J. A. Brunner (Chief of the Veterans wooden pole was then screwed of Foreign Wars) investigated our to the sides of the shelves. The a exec, subversive about warning shows this and how the diagram among the group and fired him. draw cord was knotted so that the curtains could be pulled back and One of the playbores is so worforth. ried about his induction via the work enor fight bill's becoming a law he's .... NOTE: These curtains am r booklet "Make Your Own Cur. tains" which Mrs. Spears has prepare for readers. To get a copy send 15 cents with name and address direct to: e MRS. RUTH WYETH Bedford Hills SPEARS New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for booklet "Make Your Own Curtains." Name... Address. Col-bour- n Sore hroat . gaged a man to stay in Washington Terrified Soldier Was Well to send him daily reports on its progOn Way to Being AW PL ress. . . . Another of the same set draft-proo- f staof his (afraid losing A number of soldiers home on tus if seen in public with his dolls) in the states met and furlough stays home, which is practically a were relating their experiences. Add . . . club. lucky timing: Each one tried to outdo the night "They Told Me," by Leonard Lyons other in expressing his early fears. In This Week. Deals with the war's "The way I dug my foxhole," top men and their confabs. . . . One said one of them, who had been better-known of the socialice made at "was something a terrific odor at Penn Station the for Guadalcanal, to see. Each time a shell you other ayem when she found she burst I dug deeper and deeper couldn't buy two compartments to into that hole. Florida plus three for her servants! I heard a duetornlrle Let a little Vicks VapoRub melt on me tongue, wonts line, to soothe sore throat due to colds and helps relieve irritation in upper breathing passages. To Ease Spasms of Coughing: Put a good spoonful of VapoRub in a bowl of boiling water. Wonderful relief comes as you breathe in the steaming medicinal vapors that penetrate to upper breathing pas- sages . . . soothes the irritation, quiets fits of coughing, helps clear head. For Added Relief, rub VapoRub on throat, chest, back. Let its famous double-a- ct ion keep m forVfJCKS V on working hours as you sleep. VSporus voice above "Finally me. It was my lieutenant yelling The nation's No. sin town is down at me: Ever since the FBI " "Thompson! Hey you, ThompWashington. lost that "black spook" case the son! If you dig two inches deepjoynts are Jumpin'. . . . How Tempus er, I'm going to charge you with Fugits Dep't: Davey Lee, who sat desertion!' " on A. Jolson's lap in "Sonny Boy," 1 is now a pilot In the S. Pacific for Asiatic Elephants Differ Uncle Samson. . . . T. Dorsey's book400 on Feb. 16th will guaring at the From African Animals antee him $6,000 per week against a percentage. A record, we think, for Carveth Wells says if an eleA WAC private staa nitery. has five toes in front and phant tioned at Santa Monica is really four behind, it comes from Asia; named Pearl Harbor. if four in front and three behind, it hails from Africa. An elephant Your Broaduay and Mine: from Asia has one tip on the end Faces About Town: Victor Moore, of his trunk; an African, two. If the beloved comedian, moving out its trunk is smooth it is Asiatic; of an exclusive Park Avenue place if apparently in segments, it is (back to the Broadway hotel he lived African. The ears of an Asiatic in during his vaudeville days) beelephant are about two feet long cause he was "so uncomfortable." and rather ragged; an African's J. J. Shubert telling comedienne are about the size of a piano. Sue Ryan (the Shuberts' most valuable since "Blossom property Time") to wear her rubbers outSplitting Dust Specks doors. J. P. Marquand, of the hit show, "The Late A new micromanipulator George Apley," readying to cover the that Pacific arena soon. . . Music czar holds tools invisible to the unaided Petrillo, who will try to invade the eye, such as a chisel only one newsreel music field, alleging news-reel- s twenty-fiv- e hundredth of an inch shouldn't use canned music, wide, enables a scientist to use etc. . . . Henry Luce, the Mag-natthem under a microscope to better known as Father Time. . . spread out, pick up, saw in two or Evelyn Nesbit, once the toast of the pull apart infinitesimal specks of town, preferring to dine alone at dust and rust. Tavern. Duffy's ... ... ... Low Moods Are Often Related To Constipation Yes, depressed eta tea and constipation of ten go together! Take Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. KR Tablets are different act different Purely vegetable a combination of 10 vegetable ingredi- ents formulated over 60 years ago. t Cncoated or candy coated, their action ia dependable, thorough, yet gentle, as millions of KR'a bavo provsd. Get a 25e" Convincer Box. Caution: Take only aa directed. NB TONIGHT, TOMORROW ALRIGHT LAXATIVE nt . Manhattan Murals: The photo of Allen taken about 20 years ago in checked derby and tight trousers in the window of a 47th Street r. . . . The icicles on the nude statues in the Museum of Modern Art Gardens. Very comical. . . The pup wearing military apparel. . . . The French restaurant, "L'Apres Midi," at 48th near 8th where the patrons get up and entertain. . The Navy flier in the Cub Room slaying the celebs with this one. He displays a pack of Camels and says: "If you were out on this desert where would you sleep?" The sucker looks and looks and eventually says: "I'd sleep near the pyramids or under that palm tree." to which the snapper is: "I wouldn't. I d just go around the corner (turn ing the pack) and sleep in one of these hotels!" ONE WORD SUGGESTION FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- N- f'TUMS Fred . More Helpful Information to Taxpayer Given (laim an exemption for him? POLE,WOODEN RINGS"! pho-togge- d Q. 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