European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1 the stars and St types april what income tax reduction will mean to you by James Marlow Washington Are questions and answers on the new tax Law which Congress has passed Over the presidents this new Law cuts everyone 1948 income tax Back to but the Boss will not Start taking tiie lower tax out of your pay Check till May tax has been Cut Back to then too much tax has been withheld from How does the Boss make up for that hell just Start May 1 taking less tax from according to the new from May 1 to the end of How do i Ever get straight on that overcharged tax taken since wait till you make your final returning 1949 on 1048 whatever refund is due will then get from the this new Law says husbands and wives can split Timeir in come to get a lower when do j do that in should i remind of that husbands and wives go along just As they have been you dont split your income during you do that 1949 when you file a final return on j948 the Law allows couples to split their that Doest change the Way the Boss has been withholding tax from except to Cut Down the amount he would have withheld if there had been no new what do i do about the Boss Tell him anything anything fill out new forms just sit tight unless youre in the two Over Here no matter what his now gets a personal exemption of it used to be this Means of your income is not and you get a exemption for your and you Geta exemption for each a wife is not a but if youre a taxpayer and Are or will be 65 in you get an extra exemption for if your wife is 65 or will be in you get an extra exemption for example the Are you get a total exempt but if you have a dependent who is 65 or you get only4he straight exemption for taxpayer who is Blind gets an extra in addition to his regular if your wife is you get an extra exemption for plus her regular example if youre a taxpayer and Are you get a total exemption for if your wife is you get a exemption for but if you have a Blind you get Only the usual exemption for a if youre a taxpayer and Are 65 and Are you get a total exemption the regular plus for being plus for an exemption for your wife if she is 65 and if youre in 1 or 2 above you May out form called a withholding exemption and give it to your then the Boss will make allowance for your age or blindness in figuring the amount of tax to withhold from but Only the people in 1 and 2 have Tofill out any kind of form for the Boss before he starts taking less tax from you on May of those people on or before March filed an estimated income tax return for 1948 what do they do on or before March had to file an estimated tax return on their 1948 income because the full tax was not being withheld from their or no tax was being by March 15 they had to Start making the first of four payments on the difference Between the full tax they owe in 1948 and the amount of if withheld from them in the next payments ate due june 15 and and on that Date these people file a revised estimate on their 1948 income for some of because of the new this will mean paying less estimated for some their estimated tax will be wiped out years has blood typed Washington ican scientists have just blood tests on a native of some interesting this mexican years which is pretty old to have your blood he had Type William of Harvard told the american association of physical anthropologists All about he conducted the if this finding is he it will be the oldest Skeleton has been deter x the remains of this elderly s Ideal teacher knows comics Chicago of the Loyola University department of economics said he completed a nationwide Survey among College students on what is the Good College professor cording to 1948 standards the theoretical Ideal he is Well versed in popular fiction and the mexican were found last his name is Tepe pan and his blood was checked by grind ing up some of his Bones and test ing years april 1943 Washington reports bombing of shipping in Guadalcanal by japanese april 1944 planes bomb a japanese Bauxite Plant on Ponape april 1945 infantry of the 1st army crosses the Weser River North East of the last major obstacle before the april 1946 Dwight Eisenhower tells Congress that draft Extension vital to National april 1947 Henry Dies of a Cere bral Haemorrhage at his Home to John citizen ponders his income the hew tax just Voied by will ease his burdens to some in organization forecasts continuing food shortages Ashington United nations food and agriculture organization said the Outlook for world food supplies during the coming year is some what better than last but fore cast continued the report was prepared by director general sir John Boyd Orr for submission to the Fao Council at a meeting Orr pointed out that the world still needs More than one Good crop year even to restore Levels of supplies in All Progress is being made in Restor ing and improving physical productive Plant but prices and Gen eral economic factors Call for an increasing measure of the report said that the condition of Winter Grain crops in North America and the far East is generally Good and substantial increases in the seeded areas within these regions Are this to Gether with Ai excellent Grain Harvest in latin America and have Given Vise 4o considerable Orr eclipse to help Correct distance across Pacific and japanese scientists expect to measure the distance Between the Asiatic and North american continents to within 100 feet of absolute accuracy through observations of solar eclipse May this of the annular or ring also May furnish data which will make possible More accurate knowledge of the and shape of the accurately timed motion Pic Tures will be taken by cameras stationed along the eclipse path from Burma to the Aleutian the tune lapse of the Between these stations be determined with great precision by the pictures with synchronized this lapse can be translated into surface distance and can be 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