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Monday. January 28. 19S7. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WVH Effort Made To fvlake Income Tax Filing Editor note: Br rriday. Feb. 1, every employed person should receive from his employer statement show inc how much he earned In 195s a-id how much federal tax -was withheld. Then the taxpaver can start fiihnf out his income tax form. The deadline for returns U April 15. But refunds are made first come, first served. If yon are one of several million persons who will be entitled to refunds, the sooner you file your return, the sooner you will get It. And the internal Revenue Service, too. will be grateful if you file earlv. To help taxpayers, the Internal Rev enue commissioner. Russell C. Har rington, has written five dispatches for the United Press. Toe first follows: By RUSSELL C. HARRINGTON Internal Revenue Commissioner Written for United Press Washington (U.R) The In ternal Revenue Service has tried to make taxpaying easier for you thij year, by making no sub stantial changes in the income tax returns you have to file. The tax law is essentially the same as last year and the rates of the tax are the same, so we have made no substantial changes in the forms. The time you spent preparing last year's return, therefore, should stand you in good stead this year, be cause you will be covering fa miliar ground. The one change we have made in the blank forms was to satisfy the many taxpayers who use the simple punch card tax form and want to know how much they owe instead of leaving the arithmetic for us. For them, we have devised a quick, three-line calculation method to be used If they so choose. But before I explain that, let me lay down the very basic rules of federal income taxation, in which there have been no changes at all: The regular deadline for an Individual to file his or her re turn is still midnight of Monday, April 15. The sooner you file, of ; course, the sooner your return j will be processed for billing or . possible refund. The upwards of 65 million peo ple who must file, in general, those who are citizens or resi dents of the United States under 65 years of age, having income ; of at least S600. Individuals who j are 65 or over need file only if i their income is $1,200 or high-1 er. I There are two basic forms on which to file Form 1040 (white paper) and Form 1040A a buff colored card, the size of a check and almost as, easy to fill out. j Most taxpayers can use the brief and simple card Form 1040A including many who are troubling themselves unnecessar ily with the longer Form 1040. The card form is specifically designed for persons whose in come last year was less than S5.000 as in the form of wages or salary from which the em ployer withheld money for fed eral income taxes every payday. A salary or wage earner with up to $100 of extra income from a partime job or dividends, for instance may also use the card form, so Ion" as his total income was less than S5.000. A husband and wife who earn less than 55,000 from their com bined wages and salaries, includ ing not more than $100 in other forms of income, may also use the simple card Form 1040A to file a joint return. People whose total income is So, 000 or more and those having more than S100 income not sub ject to withholding must file on the longer Form 1040. Anyone whose income is less Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) charging Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "may very well have out lived his usefulness": "A large number of congressmen just don't have confidence in Dr. Dulles. It's the wrong doctor, the wrong prescription, for the wrong disease." Jerusalem, Israeli Sector Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Moshe Leshem attacking U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammar kjold's demand for Israeli evacuation of Gaza and the Aqaba coast: "There is no indication that the secretary-general has taken this situation into proper account nor that he has even asked Egypt whether she is prepared to abandon the state of war and make peace." Ludlow, 'Mass. Roman Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Cush ing of Boston, denouncing the scheduled U.S. visit of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia: "The spectacle of the United States rolling out the welcome mat to honor this tyrant would be a crushing blow to the hopes of billions of captive people around the world." ' Vienna Mrs. Georgette Meyer Chapelle, American free-lance photographer arriving in Vienna after being freed from a Hunga rian jail where she had spent more than seven weeks on a charge of entering the country illegally: "Thank God I am an American!" BUTTE FALLS Work On Church Progresses By MART JO HARRIS Butte Falls Construction work on the new addition to the Butte' Falls Community church j has progressed in the past few weeks. The windows are in, sid-! ing is on, amber glass has been i put on both ends of building and both heating units have been j installed. The Reverend Howard Simmonds reports that the work next week will consist of floor ing the new addition. Don Ellis and Bill Dunlap, both students of the Butte Falls High school recently joined the Naval Reserves. Don is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Les Ellis and Bill is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dun lap Sr. Monty and Terry Facey, both i in the Naval Reserve, have quit j school to go into tne active service. Monty and Terry are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Bur rell Facey. Approximately S82 was donat ed to the March of Dimes at the Old Time Country Dance spon sored this past week by the Butte Falls community service clubs. Included in the S82 was a $25 donation made by the local union. The annual Mothers March un der the leadership of the Butte Falls Mt. Pitt club is scheduled for Thursday. Jan. 31. Residents wishing to make a contribution are asked to turn front porch lights on. Mothers wearing iden tification'will only stop at light ed doorways. Approximate time set for this drive will be from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Doug Finch is the chairman for the March of Dimes in the Butte Falls area. 7. They are now living in Klam ath Falls, where Donald is at tending the Oregon Technical Institute. than $600 need not file any tax return at all, but ... if taxes were withheld when it was paid to him, he is entitled to a refund. You must file a return to claim that refund. Basic Information The card Form 1040A fof 16 items of basic information, such things as your name and ad dress, social security number, employer's name, your wages, in come tax withheld, names of children and other dependents and signature. As I pointed out earlier, this year's card form has the one noteworthy change we have made in the tax forms. The card form has three new lines which give you the option of calculating how much tax you owe in addition to what has been withheld, or how much refund you have coming. If you choose to make this cal culation, and find you owe more than was withheld, you must send the money in with your re turn. You cannot wait for us to send you a bill. Anyone who uses the card form will automatically get the standard 10 per cent de duction for medical expenses, contributions, and the like, with out any extra calculating. j Make out your check or money I order to "Internal Revenue Bu- A Simple Matter for Most Americans reau Service" we are no longer the "Bureau of Internal Reve nue" and mail it with your re turn to your district director of internal revenue. There is at least one district director in every state. If you choose not to make the tax calculation, you send the form to the district director as in the past years. He will figure out your tax and send you a bill In any case, be sure to enclose copy B of the Form W2 which your employer gives you, show ing how much you were paid and how much tax he held out of your pay envelope. When you fill out your re turn you may round off the dol lar figures you use eliminate anything less than 50 cents and increase any amont between 50 cents and 99 cents to the next highest dollar. " The taxpayers who cannot use the card form those who must use Form 1040 are those who have wage or salary income of $5,000 or more, or more than $100 of other income, and those who want to itemize their de ductions because they are big ger than the optional allowance standard amount of 10 per cent of income. In filing on Form 1040, you use as much of the four-page form as necessary one, two, three or all four pages. In any case, you must determine the amount of your tax and send in any balance due (if you owe any) witfi your return. If you use only the first page of Form 1040,. you determine your tax from the tax table in the. official instructions which have been mailed to you (or can be picked up at most post of fices.) The table gives you an authentic, unseen deduction of 10 per cent, to cover medical ex penses, contributions, interest and other deductible items. If you are a Form 1040 filer and your income comes from other sources than salary or wages such as dividends, inter est, rent, capital gains you must list your income in the ap propriate sections on page 3 and compute your tax on tha rate tables which are provided. The mailing address is the same for all returns: District Director of Internal Revenue (in the headquarters city for your dis trict.) Tomorrow: Should a husband and wife file joint or separate returns? What about taxes on sale of a house? Read and Oae Classined Ada The Community's BiRgest Marketplace Dead line Sunday Classified is at at noon Saturday. The Butte Falls Lions club and auxiliary held their monthly pot luck supper Wednesday, Jan. 23 at the Union hall. The Lions met following supper and have a pro ject underway for the March of Dimes. Lions club member Ernest Smith showed slides taken on various trips, scenes from our local countryside, both cultured and wild flowers, local logging operations and various Lion ac tivities. Guests from the Prospect Lions club were Sid Morse, Wally Jenkins, Arnie Kettle stead, Vic Chapman, Lowell Ash, Ralph Good, Cleve Cleveburg and George Hubbard. Guests from Butte Falls were Mr. and Mrs. Randal Perkins and Mr. and Mrs. John Hen-shaw. Medco men were off work Thursday, Jan. 24 because of heavy snow in the mountains. Snow has been falling for two days and is still piling up with approximately six inches of new snow in town. Recent visitors to the Butte Falls High school were Mr. Mek vold. county school superintend ent and Dr. Cliff Robertson. At a special meeting of the Mt. Pitt club held at the home of Mrs. Eugene Irwin last wek mem bers voted a straight $25 dona tion to the March of Dimes rath er than go ahead with their scheduled project for the polio drive. Installation of officers for the Community hall was held last week. Officers installed were John Henshaw, president, Ed Malloy. first vice president, Bri .e Pingle. second vice presi dent, Cecil Taunton, secretary, and Ruth Capello, treasurer. The Building Committee was named with Ed Malloy as chair man and Burrell Facey and Orb Abbott as committeemen. A recent wedding was that of Miss Elaine Davison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davison of the Midway Station, to Donald Henshaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henshaw. Butte Falls. The pair, accompanied by their parents, motored to Klam ath Falls and were married Jan. Jetrry Mattern, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mattern received in juries to his leg while practicing basketball. Jerry is back at school on crutches. Miss Lucille Tweed, a teacher at the high school has been re ported ill. Out of every consumer dollar spent for pork, about 25 cents goes for fat cuts, the meat pack er estimate. 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