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Show B: ' THE INCOME TAX B RETURNS V, Within a few days tho blanks havo been distributed for returns for In- B conio tux for tho year 1015. A your Hl ago ut this tlmo It would bo dlllicult 1 to uuggeritu tho aunoyanco felt by J N thobo liublo to such tax. Thu rogu- B j lutlons of tho treasury doparlmuut H'; wero moro or less vaguo. H ', Ua&k men aud other authorities fl'j diuvicu u& iu incut luturprutatlon. Homo argued tiiut a married couple H ' would havo to pay tax If their Joint H Income was flOOO, whllo others do- B c ured that u Joint Incomu uudcr K JfOUou, might bu uxeinpt. To couipll- H , catu tlio matter furtho', last year's I '? j . ruturn wus for hut live sixths of a Bp ,, ' )cur. After tho Incomo on a given Bff I ilem was llgurod out for a year. It I Hk ''"d to bo divided by flvo sixths. I H Muny a lax payer found that his B ' urlthmetlu hud gonu bad under this H' ' scholustlc test. Tho profanity ex Bk. ponded was lullulto, K One tax payer known to tho writ- Bflri er, being In doubt as to what ex- BB, omptlou ho might claim, loft tho BB j exemption lino In tho return blank, H . j thinking' that the Internal revenue Bfl (' olllclals would till It out for him, but BS; n thoy failed to do bo. So ho had to B pay tho tax on his wholo Income B without uxeuiptlon, then go through BV tho red tupo of Illlug sworn rtctltlon H for refund, with corrected returns, J H nud tho repayment has not yet oeeu B B 1UEt year some uewspapors con K dusted columns of questions and uu- B uwoi-tt on the Income tax. Lcurusij an- H v thoillteM offered answers surrounded BS N by much legal verbiage, over which BB tho purploxed tax payor puzzled hU B,' licad as best ho might. BB Last year's law was put through In I w BiBflVl nuote, bjt this year tho blank return s In much bolter shnpo, und seems clear enough In ordinary cases. Spaco is loft for tho wlfo's return after each item, so that one blank can coor Iho incomo of both husband hus-band and wife. Whllo many Incomo tax payors aro not reconciled to this tax, and nrguo that it Is unfair, this l8 a country whoro it pays to submit good natur-odly natur-odly to the will of tho majority. Tho uvorago man cun not get much ox-cited ox-cited abcut tho sufferings of ills neighbor on a $10,000 Incomo, who Is taxed C0 under tho law. |