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Monday Dollar Night • $1 Games • $1 Beverages • $1 Hot Dogs • $1 Shoes (free with student ID) • other dollar deals ZWUO 1170 Hwy 99 at the Gilbert Center 688-8900 STRIKE CITY Calendar Monday, April 16 Exhibition: “ W.E.B. DuBois 1900” is an exhibit first curated by DuBois for the 1900 World’s Fair. From 7 a.m. 11:30 p.m. weekdays; 10a.m.-11:30 p.m. weekends. Adell McMillan Art Gallery, Erb Memorial Union. Free. Runs through April 28. For informa tion, call 346-4373. Exhibition: The Malheur photo show organized by Terri Warpinski. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. LaVerne Krause Gallery, Lawrence Hall. Free. For informa tion, call 346-3610. Reception 7-9 p.m. April 16. Russian Film Series: “East-West,” on the fate of Russian refugees after World War II, in Russian with English subtitles. 6:30 p.m. Room 115, Pa cific Hall. Free. For information, call 346-5051. News brief The Eugene Fire Department had a busy Friday night, as firefighters responded to two campus-area in cidents within an hour. At 5:57 p.m., several trucks were called in to check a report that a gas-like smell had permeated Co lumbia Hall. After using fans to clear out any volatile gases in the area, firefighters discovered that a natural gas outlet had been left open a quarter turn, allowing the gas to seep into the building. “We always take these seriously, because you can have a problem if you don’t,” said Taylor Robertson, district fire chief. Two fire trucks and an ambu lance responded to a report off smoke at a building in the 70$) block on E. 14th avenue. Upon afi rival, firefighters found it had bee:p a false alarm. I Procrastinators have options By Curt Anderson The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The day of reckoning has arrived for the esti mated 26 million taxpayers who have not finished their income tax forms. The filing deadline for taxpayers in most parts of the country is mid night Monday. In parts of the Northeast, people have until mid^ night Tuesday because of the Patri ot’s Day holiday in Massachusetts, home to an Internal Revenue Ser vice center. Getting that extra day are tax payers in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Con necticut and Rhode Island, and in New York state north of Westch ester and Rockland counties. In their rush to file, tax procras tinators should double-check their math and take care to use the cor rect tax amount from the tax table, the IRS advises. One way to save possible headaches later on is to correctly list Social Security num bers, including those for depend ents. IRS spokesman Don Roberts es timated that roughly 37 million tax returns would be filed in the final two weeks before the deadline — 11 million last week and 26 mil lion postmarked or electronically filed on Monday. About 130 mil lion individual returns in all are expected this year. Many post offices around the country will be open late to handle returns. The IRS accepts a post mark as proof the return was filed on time. Taxpayers can request an auto matic four-month extension, but they should pay their estimated taxes on time. Otherwise, the IRS will assess a late-payment penalty and interest is currently running at 8 percent. Extensions can be obtained by phone by calling (888) 796-1074 — some information from the 1999 return is needed to verify identity — or with Form 4868. Those who owe money should mail a check or money order made out to “United States Treasury,” rather than the IRS, and include a Social Security number, the year and the type of form filed. For most people this would be ”2000 Form 1040.” For people facing a big tax bill they cannot pay all at once, the IRS offers several options. One is cred it-card payment through one of the two toll-free numbers: (888) ALL TAXX or (800) 2PAYTAX. The call is free, but the compa nies that run the services for the IRS collect a convenience fee for the transaction. Fees can range up to $45. The IRS points out that it gets none of this money, nor does it collect and store credit-card numbers. The IRS also will most likely ap prove a request for an installment payment plan if the taxpayer owes less than $25,000 and can pay within a five-year period. To obtain such a plan, attach Form 9465 to the'front of the re turn; there is a $43 fee to set up an installment plan, which carries 8 percent interest and a penalty of 0.25 percent per month once it is approved by the IRS. The IRS has a program for peo ple with big debts they cannot pos sibly pay. Known as the offer-in compromise program, it allows taxpayers to negotiate a lower set tlement of their tax debt. The program has become so popular among taxpayers that the IRS has a huge backlog. The Gener al Accounting Office, which is the Tax facts and figures Tax Filers: Total projected tax returns: 129.6 million Taxpayers using professional pre parers: 66.5 million, 51 percent Taxpayers who itemize deductions: 38.2 million, 29 percent Taxpayers with home mortgage de ductions: 31.6 million, 24 percent Taxpayers with capital gains or loss es: 25.6 million, 20 percent Single filers: 55.1 million Married filing jointly: 49.6 million Revenue: Federal tax revenues for fiscal 2000: $2,025 trillion Individual income taxes: $1,004 tril lion, 49.6 percent Corporate i ncome taxes: $207 bi I lion, 10.2 percent Social insurance taxes: $653 billion, 32.2 percent All other taxes: $161 billion, 8 per cent Share of Income Tax Burden: $200,000 income and up: 47.5 per cent $100,000 to $200,000:23.6 percent $75,000 to $100,000:11.8 percent $50,000 to $75,000:11.1 percent $20,000 to $50,000:7.6 percent Source; House Ways and Means Committee and The Associated Press investigative arm of Congress, es timated that the number of offers grew from 32,300 in 1997 to 87,500 in 2000. “That is actually one of our problem areas,” said IRS Commis sioner Charles Rossotti. “It’s going to take some time to get the back log down.” $100 Bucks Do you have an idea that will benefit a large number of students at the University? The ASUO has a 100 grand and wants your ideas on how to spend it! Ideas due April 20th - Applications available in the ASUO Projects of all sizes with a cap of $100,000 will be accepted! r~ ~ : UO International Studies : ! SUMMER 2001 ' Course Offerings I INTL 240 Perspectives on , International Development ( June 25-Aug. 17 Professor Mezahav INTL 250 Value Systems in Cross-cultural Perspective June 18-July 13 Professor Proudfoot INTL 410 Global Perspectives on Disability June 25- July 6 Led by Susan Sygall INTL 407/507 Indian Society through Film June 18-22, Professor Weiss INTL 407/507 Women’s Movements Around the World July 9-13, Professor Weiss INTL 407/507 Southeast Asian Culture Through Film Aug. 6-17, Professor Carpenter INTL 407/507 Cross-Cultural Images of Childhood in Novels and Film July 3- Aug. 3 Professor Carpenter INTL 410/510 African Diaspora July 23-Aug 17 Professor Mezahav INTL 410/510 Ecotourism July 9-20, Professor Ringer INTL 432/532 Indigenous Cultural Survival June 18- July 13 Professor Proudfoot Hot off the press and into your hands Oregon Daily Emerald Circulating 10,000 papels daily
