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Show DRIVE ON FORJNCOME TAXES Millions of Dollars Expected Prom Utah Interest Extensive plans for aiding taxpayers taxpay-ers in filing their income tax returns for the year 1920 are being made by the bureau of internal revenue at Salt Lake City. Revenue officers will visit every county in the United States to assist in making out the forms. Forms for filing 1920 returns of income will be sent by collectors to persons' who last year filed a return. re-turn. Failure to receive a form, however, how-ever, does not relieve a person from his obligation to file a return within the time prescribed. Copies arc available avail-able since Tuesday. The period for filing returns Is from January- 1st to March 15th, 1921. The tax, this year as last, may be paid in full at the lime of filing the return or in four installments, the first of which is due op or before March 15th, the second on or before June 15th, the third on or before September 15th, thd fourth on or before December 15th. The first installment must accompany the filling of the return- Persons whose individual net income for 1920 was $3000 and less should ask for Form 10-IO-A, Those whose individual net Income was In excess of $5000 should ask for Form 1040. The requirements of the revenue art relating to returns for the year 1920 are the same as those for the year 1919. Every single person whose net income for 1920 was $1000 or more and every married person whose net Income "was $2000 or more must file a return. The exemptions arc $1000 for single persons and $2000 for married persons and heads of families, plus an additional exemption exemp-tion of $200 for each person dependent depen-dent upon the taxpayer for chief support sup-port if .such person is under 18 year of age or incapable of self-support. A (ingle person may claim an exemption ex-emption of $2000 as the head of a family if he Is the sole support of one or more relatives living in the same bouse with him, and if he exercises control over household affairs The bureau is emphasising this year that the requirement to file a return re-turn rests solely upon a person' marital status and the amount of his or her net Income for the year 1920. Single persons whose net income was a thousand dollars or more and married mar-ried pcroris whose net income was two thousand dollars or more must file a return regardless of whether their incomes arc non-taxable by reason of their exemptions. The normal tax rate for 1920 is four per cent on the first four thousand dollars dol-lars of net Income above the exemption, ex-emption, and eight per rent on the remaining net income- The surtax rate, which Is computed without the I ne fit of the exemption, ranges from one per cent on the amount of net Income between $000 and $6000 to 65 per cent on the amount of net income in-come in excess of a million dollars 1 |