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Show Copies of Old Returns Make Good Tax Records j .u.,:t- line 1 1 of the 1040A or line 33 on the 1040. Previous years the exemptions were figured into the tax tables, this year you need to deduct them in your tax computations. BEING ABLE to refer to completed returns could also be helpful to taxpayers who might later wish to amenu inc.. returns, income average or who are called in for a tax examination. ex-amination. Taxpayers claiming claim-ing the energy credit might also find copies of completed returns re-turns useful in figuring the amount of unused credit which they can carry over to later tax years. Copies of federal income tax returns from prior years not only serve as good financial records, re-cords, but they can serve as guides for filling out future returns re-turns as well, the Internal Revenue Re-venue Service said. A GOOD deal of information may be utilized from old copies, especially for those taxpayers whose financial situation stay almost the same from year to year, according to the IRS. , If you use your 1980 return as a pattern for this year"s return, re-turn, remember to list the $ 1 ,000 per exemption credit on |