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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH m. Simplified Rules Given to Aid in Making Out 1944 Tax Returns on New Forms Answers to Puzzlers StfiGESCREtMRADIO Found in Filling Out Income Blanks Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE SEEMS like sheer inspiration to team Eddie Bracken and William Demarest on the air as well as on the screen. Nobody who saw them together in The Miracle of Morgans Creek and Hail the (EDITORS NOTE: The article below was prepared as a service to the readers of this newspaper 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 that returns be filed as far in advance of March 15 as possible .) Released by Western Newspaper Union. We hope you Conquering Hero will ever forget the hilariously funny scenes they played together. Now, at 8:30 Sunday evenings, E.W.T. on NBC, we have The Story of Eddie Bracken," supposedly scenes from his life, with ail that talk Remember tax returns? didnt believe it, because the treasury reminds us that the law requires an income tax return not later than March 15th from every person (even children) who had $500 or more income in 1944. Aid Will Be Given Taxpayer. . The truth is that congress and the treasury simplified the er states, moreover, a combined re- j the others. Then mail the receipt a but tax forms income bit, 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 out of the way by filing their returns January 15. Those early-bird- s filed early so as to combine the filing of their returns with the filing of their Declarations of Estimated Tax, thus winding up all their 1944 Income tax chores. But most of us still have our returns to fill out and file between now and March 15. Here are the answers to some of your Inevitable questions about the Job: Q. What kinds of forms or blanks do we use? A. There are two forms. One is the withholding receipt, officially called Form W-- (Rev.), which your employer gives you If yoi have been working for wages from which Income tax was withheld. The other blank, the standard Form 1040, is not being mailed out generally this 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-forForm 1040? A. Anyone whose income was less than $5,000. Form Q. Who uses the long-form 1040? must be used by A. The long-foranyone whose income in 1944 was $5,000 or more, and by anyone who claims more deductions (for charities, etc.) than the standard allowance of about 10 per cent which is filgiven automatically to taxpayers ing withholding receipts or the short-for- Can Q. 2 long-for- m I save money by using the instead of the other forms? A. That depends on your deductions. If you use the withholding reyou can- ceipt or the short-for- TELEFACT INCREASE OF INCOME BEFORE TAXES IN (1939 479 -- U.S.A. - , or receipts to the collector of internal revenue in your district. Thats all. Dont send any money if you file this way, 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. EDDIE BRACKEN Q. IIow do 1 fill out a short-form- ? A. Get a copy of Form 1040. If all Eddie playing the bewildered youth caught in a whirlpool of events beyour income was from wages, dividends and interest, you write only yond his control, and Demarest as irascible older man, on page 1, and find your tax from the the table on page 2. If you had goads Bracken into asserting himother income for instance, from a self, finally causing the worm to farm, a business, rental property, turn. annuities, etc.) you also fill in part Jerome Cowan reported on the set of page 3. Page 3 is printed on the back of page 1, so you can tear off of Republics "Return at Dawn one and throw away the other half of the morning recently In high spirits. form. Thats why it is called a short-for- Hed gotten up early enough to have When you file Form 1040, and a real breakfast, said he fruit, find (in item 8, page 1) that you cereal, ham and eggs. Thats too still owe some tax, you must pay bad, said Director John English, Because in the that amount in full at the same time sympathetically. first sequence this morning youve return. file you your got to eat a full turkey dinner, from Q. What do you mean by the word to dessert. soup income? 3 A. As used in the income tax Claudette is In for another Colbert blanks, income means all kinds of of those screen roles. Its the ageing salaincome, including wages, (or second time in her screen career ries), dividends, interest, business that shes been shown going from on and rental profits, profits profits, to advanced age, which Is youth selling or trading securities or none too easy; its a matter of so other property. For tax purposes, much more than just make-uand income does NOT inhowever, a good actress can do It con only exclude certain items specifically vinclngly. But Claudette succeeded empted by law, such as the first in Remember the Day, and refor $1,500 of active service pay in Internationals Tomorrow peats members of the armed forces and Is Forever. their mustering-ou- t payment when discharged. Also exempted is the When Shirley Temple was to apgovernments contribution to month- pear on that radio to relatives allowances ly family salute recently, casting trouble of servicemen, social security benearose; Shirleys career was to be fits, gifts, bequests and inheritances, from her first picture to traced beneas the and amounts received one and whod play Shir her latest ficiary of a life insurance policy by ley at the age of seven, in Baby, reason of the death of the insured Take a Bow? A casting director person. solved the problem and the finally Q. What kind of taxes do we pay? impersonator, letter perfect, turned A. The 1944 income tax is made up up in the person of Mary Jane of two kinds of tax. There is a norWong, aged twenty, a mal tax (formerly called victory Chinese! 3 tax) at the rate of per cent, and a surtax (formerly called inBing Crosby was painting a life-racome tax) at rates ranging from as part of his sailor chores in 20 to 91 per cent. As the Here Comes the WAVES. Q. What kind of exemptions do scene progressed he laid on more we get from these taxes? and more paint. Finally a gob A. For normal tax, a taxpayer visiting the set remarked, If he filing a separate return is allowed puts another coat of paint on that only a fiat exemption of $500. If raft itll sink the second it hits the husband and wife file a joint return water! And what good news that and each had at least $500 income, Ingrid Bergman will do "The Bells exof St. Marys with frosby. She'll they receive a joint normal-ta- x emption of $1,000. If they file a joint portray a nun, he a priest. return, and one of them had less "A Song to Remember than $500 income, the joint normal-ta- x is marexemption would be $500 plus velous technicolor, good music, and the actual amount of the smaller in- bad history. This tale of Chopin and come. For normal tax, there is no George Sand, with Paul Muni and Merle Oberon, and with Jose exemption for dependents. For surtax, you may get exemp- Iturbi as the unseen Chopin, is tions of $500 for yourself, plus $500 beautiful to look at, lovely to hear. for your wife (or husband), plus $500 When Cliff Arquette arrived In for each of your dependents. However, you can claim an exemption New York to bring Glamour Manfor your wife (or husband) only if or to the Blues Radio City studios, you file a Joint return with her (or he posed for some pictures, pleading him), or if she (or he) had no tax- with a room clerk for hotel accomable income and was not a de- modations. But when he 'asked about the reservation hed made pendent of another taxpayer. three weeks before, he was told that the hotel was full; no pleading did any good. So for several nights, Cliff slept oq a couch in a friends room. REACHES NEW HIGH bull-voice- d, p, 1007.) 304 coast-to-coa- 1939 1943 CORPORATIONS uu 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. Ves. You can use Form 1040 or a long-foras either a short-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 1040? 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 1939 1943 BUSINESS PROPRIETORS 1939 1943 INDUSTRIAl 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 reyour tax is ceipt or a short-forautomatically 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-form- . actual deductions were more than $442 50, it would save you money to make a long-forreturn on Form 1040. Q. IIow 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 Q. Who is allowed to use a withholding receipt as a return? A. Any 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 and all the remainder of his income was from wages from which tax was withheld. However, in the community property 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- - ft U.S. PER CAPITA TAXES $1500. fc By Ruth Wyeth Spears THE smart A 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 a blank wall. At first it seemed impossible to curtain it because fixtures could not be screwed to metal casements or the plaster. The built-i- n book shelves helped that. A space a foot wide was allowed at each side of the window so that the curtains could hang over the wall, and the painted wooden pole was then screwed to the sides of the shelves. The diagram shows this and how the draw cord was knotted so that the curtains could be pulled back and forth. NOTE: These curtains are from the booklet Make Your Own Curwhich Mrs. Spears has prepare for readers. To get a copy send 15 cent with name and address direct to: Terrified Soldier Was Well On Way to Being AWOL bowl of boiling water. Wonderful relief comes as you breathe in the steaming medicinal vapors that penetrate to number of soldiers home on furlough in the states met and were relating their experiences. Each one tried to outdo the other in expressing his early fears. The way I dug my foxhole, said one of them, who had been at Guadalcanal, was something for you to see. Each time a shell burst I dug deeper and deeper into that hole. Finally I heard a voice above me. 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An elephant from Asia has one tip on the end of his trunk; an African, two. If its trunk is smooth it is Asiatic; if apparently in segments, it is African. The ears of an Asiatic elephant are about two feet long and rather ragged; an Africans are about the size of a piano. Low Moods Are Often Related To Constipation Yes, depressed states and constipation of ten go together I Take N aturea Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different-a- ct different. Purely vegetable a combination of 10 vegetable ingredients formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their action is dependable, thorough, yet gentle, as millions of NRs have proved. Get a 25fi Convincer Box. Caution: Take only as directed. N TOMORROW ALRIGHT LAXATIVE LE Splitting Dust Specks A new micromanipulator that holds tools invisible to the unaided eye, such as a chisel only one twenty-fiv- e hundredth of an inch wide, enables a scientist to use them under a microscope to spread out, pick up, saw in two or pull apart infinitesimal specks of dust and rust. Constance Bennett's launched as a producer; her first picture, Paris Underground is under way, with Constance Bennett, star, playing the lead. Her wardrobes by Adrian, Gregory Ratoff is directing, and Gracie Fields is billed as ODDS AND ESDS Gloria Blondell, of Hollywood Mystery Time, recommends working in leletision as a she lost 12 pounds in r Q. What should be done by a person whose income totaled less than an hour under those lights. . . . Jimmy Durantes plans for 194.5 include a new $500? for himself; instead of personality A. If single and the income inchasing the girls, hell let the girls cluded wages from which tax was chase him he hopes. . . . Film had withheld, he should file a separate man Dan Duryea grows blue ribbon return to get a refund of the tax su'eet peas. . . 7 here was real blood withheld If married, it will usually ( the Inner Surit turn mystery brood-cas- t uhcn Jack Arnheim, sound effects be to the familys advantage to file a man, rul his finger uhile crashing his with wife return hus(or joint . . Karl Swenson, of Grand glass. band) At any rate it will prr to Central Station has one of the largest ($. turn tea farms in Sew York state. lf SR V VAPORUS mT-- nr 0?IE WORD SUGGESTION') FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- "TUuS You cant avoid expoti to wintry winds, driving rains, sudd waather changes. But you can relievi easily and quickly-t- he muscular ach end pains they causa. Just pat on Sloai Unimant and feel It penetrate Instant co-st- with warming, comforting relief. weight-reduce- ing exemptions for dependents? A. You are entitled to an exemption for any close relative, provided you furnished more than one-haof his or her support during 1944, and provided he or she did not of hn or have $r'0J or more her own A dependent murt also be a citizen of the United States or a resident of the U. S, Canada or Mexico. in'-om- e FiSCai pas- For Added Relief, rub VapoRub on throat, chest, back. Let its famous For more than 15 years Bradley Baker has barked, neighed and quacked his way through radio. And hes always longed to play a human being. He got his chance the other night on the Ed Wynn show but as an Indian, all he had to do was grunt three times! More Helpful Information to Taxpayer Given from tax and since most men earn less than that amount in the armed lorces, 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 ex- - 2.KNOT $357 was-withhe- ld, Q. Can the wife of a military man claim an exemption for him? A. Usually, she can. Since the first $1,500 of military pay is exempt st - ELEFACT bracket. teeds Mr! dng That Problem Window Fit Perfectly Into the Room Setting: Tired Aching Muscles Sprain: Stiff Joints Strains Bruise: v-- I BTJTL. 'S.u jiksatigliatgiaai? N- |