Show Tax Deductions Average 1790 For SPECIAL TO TIlE THE CLIPPER Residents of Davis Count County who are busy preparing their federal income tax taC returns can now tell how their personal d de compare with the av av av- FOR FOR THEIR particular incomes in comes are they giving more or less Jess to charity than most people Are they I incurring greater medical expenses or or paring pacing bigger Joc local l taxes than others are Answer to these questions come from the Commerce Clearing House national authority au on tax and business law and from the Internal Rev Revenue nue Service THE has drawn up a chart based on the latest off cial figures showing just how much the average taxpayer in each income class deducts for contributions interest taxes costs In any individual case if etch uch deductions are unusually the taxpayer may be galled in to explain and sub sub- t r his figures FOR FAMILIES DUES with earn carp Ir s equal eual to the average in 1 1 r ivis County a total of 1790 or per cent of gross gross gross' income in come is generally deducted the reports show Where earnings are lower Jower than those locally the amounts that are deducted represent a larger proportion of income The reverse is true in the high er brackets brackets' TilE THE GOVERNMENT finds that taxes and interest are the biggest deductions among lower low er income groups Nearly everyone everyone ev ev- everyone who ho itemizes has deductions deductions de for local taxes as well wel as for gifts and contributions Bui Bul fewer than 60 per cent list lis medical expenses because o of limitations placed on such de The 1790 deduc deduction lon that 1 Is found to o be bej normal for the av avo income prevailing I in n Davis County consists of ol contributions con can totaling Interest payments of taxes of 54 and medical n ll al outlays outlays' of FOR L LOCAL CAL families in other other oth er Inco income e ranges ranges average deductions deductions de are as follows Income deduction of 1660 12 income 2170 2110 1750 Income Th The reports reports' note that these are only guideline figures am and do not mean that they are the amounts that would cally tally be allowed by the trie govern ment meet Deductions must be sup sup- portable by records |