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Show In come Taxes Simplified Some fifteen million Americans, Ameri-cans, who had to make an income in-come tax return in September are now thinking backward to the good old days when you made one return a year and then struggled for the next nine months to get the money for the thre installments as they fell due. The reader will recall that, early in 1943, there was a great agitation for a "simpler" form of tax returns and much propaganda propa-ganda about a "pay-as-you-go" system that was destined, so we were told, to make income tax payments practically painless. Whereas last year most Americans, Ameri-cans, who paid income taxes, made one return in March, the new, simplified system calls for returns in September, December and a final report in March of next year. The taxpayer has to gues at his income, his tax and then at his bank acount which, he hopes, will take care of the present installment. |