FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. February 19. 1958
Taxpayers Should Take Deduction
For Persons Supported During Year
Editor's note: Following i the
third in a leries of five articles
designed to help taxpayers to fill
out and file their 1958 income tax
returns. The series was prepared
specially for United Press by Rus
sell c. Harrington, commissioner
of internal revenue.
By R. C. HARRINGTON
Comm. of Internal Revenue
(Written for United Presi)
Washington w The peo
ple you support will mean
even more to you when fill
ing out your federal income
tax return.
The law provides an ex
emption of S600 for every
taxpayer meaning you may
deduct that much from the in
come on which you will be
taxed. In addition, a husband
is allowed another $600 ex
emption for his wife, if they
file a joint return or if she
files no return. If she does . mind that the government
make nut a return, shp must considers you one day older
take the exemption for her- than your actual age. That j repairs.
self, and then t h e husband means if your both birtnaay
may not claim It. was on or before Jan. 1, 1958,
Taxpayers also are entitled I you are entmea to tne extra
exemption ior age on
household maintenance i n
such cases are rent, insurance,
Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
ture.
Journey Takes Longer
Not so the European. Their
journey, being longer, takes
three years, and appropriate
ly, they take Dreciselv three
to additional exemptions for
other reasons, and this arti
cle will try to explain some of
them.
Extra Exemption
First, if you are 63 or older,
you may take an extra S6G0
exemption. Taxpayers who !
S600
your 1957 return.
The calculation of S600 ex
emptions for your dependents
is different from the methods
used for husbands and wives.
One example if you support
vour 70-vear-old father, the
are both 65 or older and blind ' exemption is only SbUU ana
set two extra exemptions, but ! nothing extra for his over-65
the S600 blindness exemption 1 age status.
mav be taken at any age. The i In order to claim someone
extra exemptions for age and as your dependent you must
blindness apply only to the ' have provided more tnan one
taxpayer, husband or wife or
both, but not to dependents.
Before moving to the ques
tion of dependents, keep in
Among the earth's mi
grants,, perhaps the greatest
is the tiniest when he begins
his trip and so small you
can hold him in your hand.
This is a fish, the eel. With
' an adult to guide it, it travels ; times as long to mature
utilities and f ood- I unf rrinSly . 2' f'000 ' Upon their arrival, the male
but not such things as cloth- Ilmes . ld ,u L"e sa"
ins education medical ex- years 10 gel lrom e -.v.i iudnts wmie me resi
de and the like even if deePs to its fresh-water home less females drive on, climb
you nav them HeaSo house- where its parents 0nCe lived' the riverS and are not content
IZPZT use Form 040 to ve crossing dry land if nec-, until they arrive at the head
claim the lower tax rates essary- : waters sometimes crossing
vahi-t Cm i As an adult between 7 to dry land to lakes which have
V-..1 " ."n--. !15 years, the female travels ; no demonstrable connection
fJu...y ac.L, - atpr nr rinwith rivers. Fnr ih ! ern uml
Another question about de-, v..m nr Tratprn ; land mVhttimo im, I cnarSe of planning and re
America) down to the , sea ! are equipped with gills' that
Jj " j can store enough water to
. I ; keeD them moist until thsv
f, I can reach- the very pond
BLM Foresters
Attend Course
Two men from the Medford
office of the bureau of land
management attended a one
day school in Roseburg Tues
day on the "use of the prism
wedge, according to Ross
Youngblood, Medford district
forester.
Frank Palo, forester from
the northeast unit of the dis
trict in charge of planning
and research, and Ed Kupil
las, forester from ihe south
ern unit of the district in
this iummer. AH districts of
the BLM will put the new
method Into cpertltoa t
time, Youngblood added.
Eight Selected to
Y Youth Program
Eight southern Oregon teen
agers were elected to YMCA
youth and government offi
ces at a pre-legislative meet
ing recently at Southern Ore
gon college, Ashland, Herb
Partridge, YMCA youth ac
tivities director, has an
nounced. Those elected were Came
ron Hinman, Modoc Hi-Y,
governor; Miss Joyce Gilin
sky, Kappa Tri Hi-Y, senate
reading clerk; Karon Sloniger
and Joan Laurila, both of
Kappa Tri Hi-Y, reporters.
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Legislative committee
chairmen elected were Dwan
da Winchel, Theta Rho Iota
Tri Hi-Y, Larry Anderson,
Rogue Hi-Y. Their two alter
nates are Maria Weed, Otyok
wa Tri Hi-Y and Caron Leff
ler, Theta Rho Iota Tri Hi-Y.
All elected officers will go
to state legislature in March
as part of the youth and gov
ernment program sponsored
by the YMCA.
Seven Clubs
Seven Hi-Y and Tri-Hi Y
clubs were represented at the
conference including Wenat
chee Tri Hi-Y, Modoc Hi-Y,
Otyokwa Tri Hi-Y, and Tala
math Tri Hi-Y. Representing
Medford were Theta Rho Iota
Tri Hi-Y, Kappa Tri Hi-Y and
Rogne Hi-Y.
Ben Day, Medford attor
ney, gave the keynote address
at the session and the ' pro
gram included talks by Dr,
Elmo Stevenson, president of
Southern Oregon college,
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing, Rep. Bob Duncan, and
County Clerk- Bereth Hop
kins. . While at the legislature the
group plans to present three
bills.
Youth and government pro
gram is designed to acquaint
teenagers with the process in
volved in government action,
Partridge explained. It served
to further leadership ability
and the Christian concept as
the basis of good government
in action.
INCOME TAX TIPS
Washington iff) Here
are five common mistakes
lhat cause people to pay
more income tax than they
should:
Claiming the standard 10
per cent deduction for al
lowable deductions (such as
interest, contributions and
taxes) when an itemized
list would add up io more
than 10 per cent of income.
Failure io claim all allow
able deductions when mak
ing the itemized list, such
as the cost of auto license
plates.
Husbands and wives of
ten file separate returns
when a joint return would
reduce their tax.
Failure to claim all per
missible dependents, espe
cially children under 19 or
in school (though they may
have earned more than
S600 of their own) and rel
atives you may be support
ing jointly with others.
Not deducting pay re
ceived under an employer
financed plan while you
were absent from work be
cause of injury or illness.
pendents is the status of di
vorced or legally separated
persons. You may not claiman
exemption for your spouse if
you were divorced or legally
separated during the year.
regardless of whether you
paid for the support of that
person
There are five tests to apply
to the question of whether a
person is your dependent:
1. You must have furnished
more than half of his or her
support.
2. The dependent's gross in
come must have been less than
S600 for the year, unless the
dependent is your child under
19 or a full-time student, as
explained before.
3. The dependent must be
related to you or, if not, must
be a member of your house
hold who is living in your
home.
4. The dependent must be
a citizen of the United States,
or if not a citizen, a resident
of the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Panama or the Canal
Zone
5. The dependent must not
be making a joint return with
his or her husband or wife.
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half of his or her support for
the year and their pwn in
come must nave oeen less
than S600. However, the rules
are different for persons
whose support is paid for by
several individuals.
Exemption Not Divided
For example, let us consid
er a mother who is being sup
ported by several of her chil
dren, none of them contribut
ing more than half of the to
tal. One of them whose share
of the bill is 10 per cent or
more of the total may be
chosen by the others to claim
the $600 exemption.' The ex
emption cannot be divided.
The rest who contribute more
than 10 per cent must-file a
declaration that they will not
claim the exemption. This
declaration is Form 2120 and i
is - available at all Internal
l Revenue Service offices. : .
Contrary to the general
rule, your children who are
under age 19 or who are full
time students of any age may
be claimed as $600 -exemptions
even though they earn
$600 or more themselves. To
be a full-time student, the law
requires full-time study at a
recognized school for at least
five months of the year, or at
tendance in one of several
full-time on-the-farm training
programs.
The deciding factors are
whether the child was under
19 or a full-time student, and
that more than half of his sup
port was supplied by the tax
payer who claims the exemp
tion. Children Must File
Children who earn $600 or
more in a year, however, must
file income tax returns of
their own. A youngster may
claim his own personal ex
emption on this return with
out changing the right of the
taxpayer who is contributing
more than half his support to
claim the child as a depend
ent. If the child earned less
than $600 and taxes were
withheld from his pay, he is
entitled to get the money
back. To do so, he must file
a return.
The law provides special
tax rates for persons qualify
ing as a "head of household." j
Usually, this means a person
who is unmarried or legally j
separated who paid more than j
half of the maintenance cost ;
of a household which was also i
the home during the full year j
for (1) any relative who qual- j
ifies as the taxpayer's depend- J
ent, or (2) the taxpayer's un- j
married child, grandchild or ',
stepchild, even though the I
child is not a dependent. An- j
other way to qualify as head I
of a household is to maintain
a home for one or both of
your parents if either one
qualifies as your dependent.
Costs to be figured into
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Glenn L. Jackson, vice
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one of four panelists from
outside the Portland area who
will participate in "1958 Air
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sues clinic in Portland Fri
day. About 500 businessmen
from Washington and Oregon
are expected to attend Jhe all
day session, which is one of
12 the U.S. Chamber of Com
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month.
The program is designed to
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more about the major issues
where she picks up her escort,
the male, and on they wriggle
to the great depths of the Sar
gasso Sea, southeast of Ber
muda, where they spawn.
And die.
Later, there is a sudden
eruption of tiny, transparent,
threadlike creatures (elvers)
welling to the surface and
these larvae stream off in two
main directions, never cross
ing tne American eivers
turn west, the European elv
ers turn east.
Performing a prodi g i o u s
feat of navigation, these tiny
larvae unerringly set course
for the fresh waters where
their parents once lived.
The American members of
the family reach their brack
ish water within a year and,
by arrival, the elvers are ma-
where their mothers had, lived
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Sorry, I simply can't answer
your many friendly letters
search, attended the school
The wedge, which was in
vented in Germany, has been
in use for some time in Eu
rope and by commercial for
esters, Youngblood said. He
explained use . of the system
will lower costs of operation
by making estimates of sec- j
tions more accurate in less
time. The method used by the j
BLM before is by placing a ;
stake and then walking a I
large circle for a section.
Several wedges are made, !
each for estimating a differ- j
ent sized section. The local j
office plans to use the new
method for measuring plot
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