Show SA Monday From Page One April 16 2001 Taxes Facts and figures on taxes and who pays them' Tax Filer: Total proiected tax returns 1 29 6 million Taxpayers using professional preparers 66 5 million 51 percent Taxpayers who itemize deductions 38 2 million 29 percent Taxpayers with home mortgage deductions 31 6 million 24 percent Taxpayers with capital gams or losses 25 6 million 20 percent Single tilers 55 1 million Married Wing jointly 49 6 million Revenue: Federal tax revenues tor fiscal 2000 $2 025 ttillion Individual income taxes $1 004 trillion 49 6 percent Corporate income taxes $207 billion 10 2 percent Social insurance taxes $653 billion 322 percent All other taxes $161 billion 8 percent Share of Income Tax Burden: $200000 income and up 47 5 percent $100000 to $200000 23 6 percent $75000 to $100000 11 8 percent $50000 to $75000: 11 1 percent $20000 to $50000' 76 porcent Source House Ways and Means Committee ble tin IKS advises One way to save possible headaches later on is to correctly list Social Security numbers including those for dependents IKS sixikesman IXm Roberts estimated that roughly 37 million tax returns would be filed in the final two weeks before the deadline - 11 million last week and 26 million postmarked or electronically filed on Monday About 110 million individual returns in all ure expected this ear Many post offices around the country will be open lute to handle returns The IRS accepts u postmark as proof the return was filed on time Taxpayers' cun request an automatic Earned Income Tax Credit fills welfare gap Tax facts From 1A four-mont- h One is exten- credit-car- d payment through one of the two toll-frenumbers: (888) - ALL TAXX or (8(H)) 2PAYTAX The call is free but the companies that run the services for the IRS collect ti convenience fee for the transaction The IKS points out that it gets none of this money nor does it collect and store credit-carnumbers The IKS also will most likely approve a request for an installment payment plan if the taxpayer owes less than e sion but they should pay their estimated taxes on time Otherwise the IKS will assess a penalty and interest currently running at 8 percent Extensions can be obtained by phone by culling - some informa(8H8) tion from the 1999 return is needed to verify identity - or with Form 4868 Those who owe money should mail a check or money ' order made out 1o "United States Treasury" rather than the IKS and include a Social Security number the year and the type of form filed For most people this would be "2000 Form 1040" For people facing a big tax bill they cannot pay all at once the IKS offers severul options late-payme- 796-107- 4 d i and can pay within a period To obtain such a plan attach Form 9465 to the front of the return: there is u $43 fee to set up tin installment plan which carries 8 percent interest and a penalty of 025 percent per month once it is approved by the IKS WASHINGTON - Ymelda in an office in suburban Maryland and lixiked carefully at the government form she had just filled out If the single mother of two nlet all the standards she could get a check for as much as $1200 It would come not from any of the traditional welfare agencies but from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of the earned income tax credit (EITC) which is designed to help the working poor As traditional welfare payments end the IRS has emerged as a leading administrator of the social safety net For fiscal 1999 the most ccnt figures available 192 mil- lion taxpayers claimed about $31 billion in the credits $26 billion of which was' refunded in cash That’s up from $75 billion in 1990 before the EITC program was expanded in 1993 e famIn addition ilies made up part of the group that claimed $27 billion in child tax credits in 1999 In contrast the new welfare sat - e The IKS has a program for people with big debts they cannot possibly pay Known as the program P Sal Appllamc MINI PLIMPSt tance for Needy Families enacted in 1996 spent about $11 The Agriculture Department's food stamp program distributed about $16 billion last year and the Bush admin- istration has requested slightly more than $15 billion for Section 8 housing programs next year Medicaid outlays at $118 billion dwarf everything Many of the millions of Americans writing checks to the IRS Sunday might not know about a program in which the government writes the checks But the EITC has been around for many years at first mainly as a minoV boost to working families But as the public soured on traditional welfare it has fallen to the EITC program to fill the gap "If people had sat back and thought about this 30 years ago (when the EITC was enacted) and realized that this was in a way the camel’s nose under the tent they might have had second thoughts & Wash Blvd though I think it has turned out to be a tremendous success and has reinforced a lot of basic American values" said Robert D Reischauer a former head of the Congressional Budget Office who is now president of the Urban Institute a nonprofit research group liere The EITC is simple in cept if not in execution The IKS views itself as a revenue collector of course not a social service agency and the care and feeding of the EITC has its costs The program has grown so much that for the past five years the earned income credit has had its own line item in the IRS budget For next year the agency is requesting $146 million and the equivalent of 2236 full-tim- e percent workers of its - 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