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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.”
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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!
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: 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
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