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Income Tax Booklet
Federal Tax Errors
New features of the U.S. Internal
Revenue bureau’s second (1949) edi
tion of Your Federal Income Tax in
cluded new chapters on tax treatment
of installment sales and appeals pro
cedures, a detailed index, and fac
similes of the individual income tax
forms.
The booklet was first issued last year
to help taxpayers who find the 16-page
pamphlet distributed free with tax re
turn forms inadequate. It is designed
for those with special problems, or
who want more detailed information.
It is written in clear language and
typographically designed for easy read
ing.
The booklet quickly became one of
the fastest selling publications handled
by the Superintendent of Documents,
with over. 345,000 being distributed
last year. (U.S. Government Printing1
Office, Washington 25, D.C.; 138 pp.,
25c.)
Income tax administrators in several
states this year have been working to
give the honest taxpayer, an even
break. Vigorous campaigns have been
conducted in Arkansas, Georgia, Ken-
tucky and Oregon to see to it that all
persons liable for tax pay their share.
Auditors of Oregon income and cor
porate excise taxes have uncovered
delinquencies which may yield the
state several million dollars, it w,as re
ported recently. Most of the older un
audited accounts have been kept alive
through waivers. Auditors have been
checking county records involving
sales of property on which income
taxes on profits have not been paid.
Some teases indicated fraud, and others
unintentional error.
Hearings are being held in connec-
ti on with disputed tax claims in order
to clear the income tax dylfiaM s rec
ords. Many voluntaryjijpayments have
been made, and in some instances the
"state has refunded money.
Board of Directors Meeting
Oregon State Employees Association
December 17, 1949
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Senator Hotel
I T he m eeting ^ g g c alled to o rd er a t 9:45
A.M., by P re sid en t C hidsey. The follow ing
officers and d irecto rs w ere p resen t at roll
call:
E. F. Chidsey, presidentM E . A. Bam ford,
v ice-p resident; Lois R. M anning, secretary -
tre a su re r; L oren R. W hite, jr., p ast p resi
dent" P. M. B ran d t, d irec to r of laws and
legislation; Ja m es B anks, d irecto r of civil
service; G ordon S h attu ck , d irec to r of p u b
lic relations; J. D. Wilson, directo r of m em
bership; W illiam Law less, d irecto r of in
surance; R o b ert M. A shby, d irector, d istrict
No. 2; Jam es W. V aughn, director, district
No. 3; A ugust Mose, director, d istric t No. 5;
L. A. M cCroskrie, director, d istric t No., 6.
Also p rese n t w ere F o rre st V. Stew art,
ex ecu tive secretary ; Eugene Schm idt, assist
a n t ex ecu tiv e secretary ; Je a n Brim acom be,
ad m in istrativ e se creta ry ; Virgil O’N eil a n d
Floyd Q uery, fo rm e r d irectors of public
relatio n s an d law s and legislation, respec
tively.
I t w as nioved th a t th e reading of th é
m in u tes of th e previous m eeting be dis
pensed with-. M otion carried.
C om m unications
T h e se c re ta ry rea d tw o com m unications :
one from Jo h n N orton, directo r of d istrict
No,.' 1, P o rtlan d , w ho w as' unable to be
p resen t, and th e o th e r from P. M. B randt,
d irecto r of, law s and legislation, in reg a rd to
th e n u m b e r of p erm a n en t reg u la r em ployees
m state service.
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Salem, Oregon
I Mr. M cCroskie asked w h eth e r t h e G J.
w ives referre d to held tem p o rary or p erm
an e n t jobs.
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TT®rap d t said th e y held p e rm a n e n t
jobs. He stated th a t tw o in his d ep a rtm en t
w ere leaving th is y ear, h aving b een th e re
a y ea r and a y e a r and a half, respectively
T hey are ® i l service em ployees, b u t th e y ’
do
belonS to th e association. H e said
th a t, how ever, w as n o t th e point. W hat he
w ished to b rin g out w as th a t th e y a re listed1
am ong th e te n o r eleven o r m o re th o u san d ’
sta te em ployees. He, said, th e re a re lots of
tem p o rary em ployees in -any d ep a rtm en t
of any size, th ey a re n o t considered re g u
la r em ployees an d a re n o t ex p ected to b e
long o th e association. T h ey ta k e u p th e
w o rk as a stop-gap. He said h e believed th e
nu m b er of reg u la rly established jobs should
be determ ined; w h eth e r 8,000 or 9,000; th a t
K lw o u ld h elp a lo t to h av e th e n u m b e r es
tab lish ed before th e legislature.
Mr. S tew art advised th a t M r. Schm idt h a d 1
done a lot of w ork an d fo u n d it v ery diffi-.
cu lt to d eterm in e ex actly th e n u m b e r of
p erm an en t em ployees. He h as b een w orking
w ith ;c iv il service and th e y h av e trie d to
ju stify and boil th e n u m b er down.
Mr. Schmidt, stated , th a t from th e O ctober
classified lists there, w ere 12,478 an d a n es--
tim ated unclassified of 1,600, o r a to ta l of
14,078.
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M r. Chidsey said. M r. B ra n d t’s; f latter;