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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1963)
Internal Revenue Service Claims Collecting Tax By Numbers Satisfactory Method WASHINGTON (UPll-The In ternal Revenue Service (IRS I to day reported satisfactory prog ress in its massive numbers col lection program aimed at mak ing it even tougher to cheat the tax collector. IRS officials said they are re ceiving fewer complaints than expected from the millions of tax payers who are being asked to fill out forms as part of this new program. The idea is to assign each tax payer a number. In the case of individuals, their social security numbers are need Those w'ho have no social security number arc being asked to fill out prop er forms to get one by October of this year. After October, when an em ployer files information on com pensation paid he must include the employe's number. The same is. true of corporations paying dividends, and banks, savings and loan associations insurance companies and other institutions which make interest payments to their customers. The IRS then will le able to run all this information through computers to make cer tain that every person who re ceived such income has reported it. IRS officials say that when they launched this big numbers project last year, they expected the worst but they have been pleasantly surprised. "The complaints don't appear to be running any higher than others we have had involving oth er tax programs," one official said. "We haven't had any re quests from our field offices for additional help to handle the letters." He said it might just be that the American public has become so numbers oriented that It s tak ing the new IRS system in stride. . ; "I guess people are just gel ling used to being assigned num 3rs," he said. "We have them jww on charge plates, bank ac- .'counls and just about everything else." The IRS has reported that it has most of the social security numbers of the 60 million per sons who filed income taxes forms last year. ; The big problem was expected to' be at the other end. Under this rjew system, corporations and fi tnanclal institutions were re quired to write to their share holders and beneliclarics to get ; their social security numbers. - The fact that there are about 1? million stockholders suggests the extent of their problem but the IRS reports there is no In dication of any serious difficulty. "The companies and businesses apparently arc going ahead and Sending out requests," an IRS official said. "We anticipated a .heavy number of Inquiries but it seems to be pretty well handled by tho corporations. '.;Somo individuals might be in lor a frustrating time before all Of the numbers arc collected. Take the case of a man who owns stock in 10 corporations. ana ftas a savings account in two banks and llirce savings and loan associations. He will have to fill out 13 forms one for each of these institu tions which will need his num ber to include in their report to the Ills showing the interest and dividends that he was paid. C Financial institutions have been jnaking these reiiorts to tlie IRS, hut in the past tliey have included tmly the recipient's names. By Jiving each payee a numlier, he will have a separate Identity that will make it impossible to con fuse him with someone else. The IRS decided on (he number ing system dfter coping wilhi some 1.3 million Smiths, 900,000 Johnsons, 750,000 Williamses and others with similar names, com plicating the job of keeping track of them all. In some cases, parents will have to fill out forms to obtain children. This will be needed where a bank account, or shares of stock may be in a child's name. The IRS said most of the cum-' plaints received so far are from social security numlicrs lor theirithose under the mistaken im prcssion that automatically getting a numbcrlnumber, anadoes not mean that puts them under a person is necessarily in the so- the social security program. The IRS said it was not so. It said tlie card is designated "So cial Security and Tax Account" cial security program. An IRS official said that Con gress was asked last year to appropriate $19 million to finance the administrative cost of get ting every taxpayer a number. He said Congress refused on grounds thai (lie appropriation probably should go to the social security program. Tlie question of financing "is still up in the, air." according to the IRS. One official said that most of the complaints come from pcr-l sons who question the need for the numbers. He said that the IRS usually seems to be able to liandle such queries to the satis faction of the complainant: PAGE 10-A HERALD AND NEWS. 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