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Show October 27, 1972 DESERET NEWS, Friday, IRS Strives To Simplify Tax Instructions By BILL NFJKIRK Associated Press a woman whose husband has died" And a "widower": "a nter man vvhuse wife has died. But the glossary also includes short of meanings adjusted gross income, allowance, and percentage standard deduction, tonus which some taxpayers mai haie duliculti with. IBS Commissioner Johnnie M Walters made a simpler instruction book one of his main projects when he took oxer the post. And he did some of the editing. It was he who deleted the word "spouse. "We don't think it s fair to the American taxpaver to think that we are talking about a water fountain." the commissioner WASHINGTON ( VP) Stnung for sensible, simple language in new instruction books to be sent to taxpauus. the Internal Revenue Service banned Hit has word, a added short glos"spouse." sary of income-taterms, and become decidedly less olticial. These de elopments are e in instruction books for x the 1U40A lorm, income-ta- the "short form" that is being reined for use next vcar after an absence of a few years The glossary is on the last lb pages 0f the instructions and is a combination of simple and tairh complex terms For example- "excess' is defined as "more than" "Widow" is - Instead of spouse, the instruction book has the words "husband and wife. For ex-- , ample, in explaining exemptions it savs, "You can take an exemption ftu your wife or husband if you are filing a Berrigan Trial By 1SABKLLK HALL WASHINGTON (L PI) Two veteran reporters who covered the alleged plot of the Rev. of , WANTED limit. Call Weight Reducers of Utah. age 521-812- 1 following . Single Vision or Bifocal guidel- - glasses $1390 The IRS is still working on OUR ONE LOW PRICE INCLUDES: Single vision lenses, clear or tinted All bifocal lenses, clear or tinted Your choice of any frame in our entire selection Our One Low Price includes impact- resistant lenses Last vear, Walters told a newsman the instructions wore so simple th.u even a could fill out the return. A number of classes took that challenge; manv said the instructions were just loo furry. Satisfaction Guaranteed fifth-grad- fitth-grad- e ImhUmirimpd Downtown Salt Lake This year, Waite's named an advisory committee that some included teachers. IRS said they have made several suggestions. One of the changes appears to be the lone The word you is used frequently instead of The taxpayer. The new instructions use tins sort of approach: "If you do not OPEN ALL DAY e MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAr City OS ffiEE? feat 1 746 South Main Street, fijffliHl AhTCI has destroyed our office at 246 South Main, and we are temporarily located at . Fire . . SALT LAKE CITY DOWNTOWN 4TH SOUTH 59 EAST Between State and Main jurisprudence." Ml liYI T Conditioner is a whole new idea. It helps stop color damage rrom happening. The specially Conditioner olended oils in protect ) our hair w bile the color is taking. Conditioner seems to Ogilvic restore "life and feeling". And the feeling last till the next time jou color. EDUCATIONAL ISSUES 1969-JOE- add $895 million WRONG to education money TO RETAIN FUNDS INCREASE. adopt conference report including $1 WRONG billion additional appropriations for TO OVERRIDE VETO. 1970-V- OTE Motion veto. ABSENT to pass education appropriation over TO RECOMMIT 1970-V- OTE To ED. APPRGP. RIGHT recommit second education appropriation. TO OVERRIDE VETO. WRONG Override veto of educational money bill. Pre-Col- 1971-HATH- To Pre-Col- AMENDMENT. AWAY add $728.9 1971 To To ft. or. (3 to 6 RIGHT adopt conference report. HATHAWAY AMENDMENT. WRONG ations. EDUCATIONAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL WRONG adopt conference report appropriating $4.1 billion for education. To (There was insufficient room to list three other N.E.A. key educational votes. Mr. Lloyd voted "WRONG" on all three.) Introducing Ogilvie Rre Color Conditioner You 101 more than bcautilul color. You got beautiful hair. Of all the states, Utah spends the highest percentage of state and local taxes on education, yet we have the highest ratio ofstudents per teacher in the nation. More money is critical fora better education for our children. The federal government must pay a fair shore of educational costs we have pushed the residential property tax to the breaking point. adequate salaries. Utch ranks only 31st in the nation in teachers' salaries which means we are shortchanging both our teachers and our add $364 million to educational appropri 1972 concerned with education in Utah. In Congress , I would have voted "RIGHT" on all ten issues. We Utahns tax ourselves at a high rate, yet only seven states in the nation spend less money on each student than we do. We must also pay our teachers more HIGHER EDUCATIONAL BILL OND As the father of five children , I cm ABSENT provide retroactive pay for teachers. 1972-SEC- 2 WRONG to educational ECONOMIC CONTROLS. 1972-OMN- IBUS $ million appropriations. To WAYNE OWENS' COMMENTS: VOTED: AMENDMENT. LSON 1970-V- OTE or U0YD KEY To your hair after you color it, youre too late. I HIM non partisan group, with a membership composed of more than 1.2 million teachers and school administrators.) 1969-V- OTE If you condition r The National Educational Association is vitally concerned about the quality of education in this country. Every two years they rate on key "Right" or "Wrong" congressmen's votes educational issues. (The National Educational Association is a Would bill. Pre-Col- using ines. stiller, be absent from those instrue tions as well. LIMITED TIME OFFER! to be a lot spokesmen for IKS list'd In the past, the IRS has been heavily criticized for being too technical in its instruction books. And the agency has strived to simplify. "But in the Berrigan case there was a special lesson: So powerful had the director of the FBI become that the President of the United States, who iiequently reminded his countrymen that he was a lawyer, chose to ignore Hoovers blatant violation of the Bill of Nelson and Ostrovv Rights, wrote. instead the Nixon administration prosecuted in a vain attempt to show the FBI director had Ins fact.--, right. When a nation that prides itself on being a system of laws not men permits itself to be so corrupted, the portents are ominous. Former Attoi nev General John X. Alitchell was in .charge on Jan. 12, 1971, when a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. Pa., indicted Berrigan and five others on charges of plotting to blow up the heating systems of lederal buildings in and to kidnap W'axlupjon White House aide Kissinger. Former Assistant Attorney General Robert C. Mafthan, now with the Committee' to Reelect the President, was in Incharge of the super-secre-t' ternal Security Division which actually handled the abortive prosecution. OGILVIE Ogilvic the A9 ness of the American system Philip Berngan and others to kidnap Dr. Henry A Kissinger have concluded the attempt to prosecute the antiwar priest was a corruption of the American svstem of justice. "The FBI and the Berri-gana book bv Los nge!es Times writers Jack Nelson and Ronald J Oslrovv. was published today. In it the newsmen contended the Nixon administration carried out the prosecution in an effort to prove FBI Director J Edgar Hoover had his facts right The controversial case after months of trial ended in a deadlocked jury which, the authors said, might be considered as reflecting the just- - 50 persons to lose weight in an Alpha Wave experiment'using Biofeedback Training. must be Participants over normal weight. No fill in Vo to irstnictiniK for the roguform UMil, a mure- - complicated affair. But the word "xium: is expected to joint return. Mth-giad- Book Scrutinizes figure your tax, the rest of your return, want IRS nt'iV lar - students. We need representatives in Washington who realize our children are our greatest resource and that they deserve the best education possible. Paid Pol. Advertisement by The COMMITTEE of EDUCATORS for WAYNE OWENS: Dorothv Zimmerman, Chmn. 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