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Show Tax Division Warns Public On Vacation Claims A warning that tax paid vacations vacat-ions are viewed with jaundiced eye by Internal Revenue Service agents came today from Commissioner Dana Latham with approach of the summer vacation season. He said Federal revenue agents have been alert for some time to abuses by a small minority of taxpayers tax-payers who claim tax deductions for purported business trips which in fact represent vacations at resort re-sort hotels, hunting trips, attendance at-tendance at sporting events, etc. He said Federal tax agents will also closely check amounts claimed claim-ed for the cost of club dues, entertainment, en-tertainment, and company-supported autp mobiles, yachts, airplanes, air-planes, hunting lodges and beach cottages to make certain they qualify qual-ify as bona fide tax deductions. "We have no desire to tell taxpayers how to spend their money," Commissioner Latham said, "but in fairness to that vast majority of our citizens who pay every penny of their Federal income in-come tax liability, we do not intend in-tend to permit tax abuse by a relatively re-latively few who attempt to short-change Uncle Sam". He added: "Our self-assessment system of taxation is the best yet derived, but I feel strongly strong-ly that the surest and quickest way to undermine public confidence in our system would be to fail to see that each and every person per-son pays his fair share under the law." . |