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Show UNCLE SAM WILL FIGURE YOUR INCOME TAX You won't have to figure out your own income tax all by yourself hereafter. here-after. The government is going to send out men to help you. It will be up to you to hunt up these men, who will be sent into every county seat town, and some other towns besides. to ' meet the people. Postmasters. bankers and newspapers will be able to tell you when the government's income tax man will be around, and where to find him. He will answer your questions, swear you to the return, re-turn, take your money, and remove the wrinkles from your brow. Returns Re-turns of income for 1917 must be made between January 1 and March 1, 191S. "The Government recognizes." Collector of Internal Revenue W. C Whaley said today, "that many per sons experience a good deal of difficulty diffi-culty in filling out income tax forms. It recognizes, too. that taxpayer? resident at points where collectors' offices are not easily accessible find it hard to got proper instruction in the law. Next year, when every married person living with wife or husband and having a net income of $2000, and every unmarried person ' not the head of a family and having a net income of J 1000 for the year 1917, must make return of income on the form prescribed, there will be hundreds in every community seeking seek-ing light on the law. and help in executing ex-ecuting their returns. My own (in every other collection district in the nation will be divided into districts, with the county as the unit, and a government officer iufoimed ou the Income tax assigned to each district. He will spend hardly less than a week In each county, and in some counties a longer time, very likely at the court house in the county seat town. In cities where there are collector's col-lector's branch offices, he will be there, and in other cities possibly at the city hall. My office will in due time advise postmasters and bankers and send out notices to the newspapers news-papers stating when the officer will be in each county. . It will be unnecessary un-necessary for prospective taxpayers to ask my office for forms on which to make returns. The officer who visits their county will have them. "It may be stated as a matter of general information that 'net income' in-come' is the remainder after subtracting sub-tracting expenses from gross income. Personal, family or living expense is not expense in the meaning of the law. the exemption being allowed to ; cover such expense. ! The new exemptions of $1000 and $2000 will add tens of thousands to the number of income taxpayers in this district, inasmuch as practically every farmer, merchant, tradesman. I 'professional man and salary worker and a great many wage workers wii! be required to make return and pny tax. "The law makes it the duty of th-taxpayer th-taxpayer to seek out the collector. Many people assume thnt if an income in-come ta form is not sent, or a government gov-ernment officer does not call, they are relieved from making report. This is decidedly in error. It is the other way round. The taxpayer has to go to the government and If he doesn't within the time prescribed, he is a violator of the law, and the government will go to him with its penalties." |