European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 31. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Offering amnesty to tax cheats Safe Hooes of co Heck $200 million with program aim new Yolk officials Hope to million during a the acc Niomah   i Bidav with the message i r Al Many.  bring in about a amnesty program  you know who you Are and what i really would Haic used to do is gel everyone feeling Emlu. Hut i m Noi that none said site tix commissioner Roderick Chu. Who estimates t a Chi Lam costs new York is billion annually. " instead. New York s amnesty television Commerce ils pm phase a thai the lax Coll Cir has new ways of finding cheats and tougher penalties for those who Don t pay up voluntarily. " c he Speaks of the easy to remm bar three is Hal Jov. Mario Cuomo has said underly the program. If you re a lax Cheal. We re going to catch you we re going to convict you and we re going to can v of " say Cuomo. 1 he same Lough Guy approach has been used in amnesty programs in Illinois. California and Massachusetts. Like new Yorks heir programs let residents pay delinquent taxes plus interest without civil or criminal penalties. Illinois raised an estimated $152.4 million from ils pro Gram last fall according to records collected by new York  officials a Scari him mines programs nationwide. In California and Massachusetts the estimated returns were $144 million and 5.s million respectively. Hollars raised in those slates programs and the s20i million projected Lor new York Are inflated amnesty sex Perls say because an estimated 70 percent to m percent of the Money collected is Revenue that tax collectors knew was owed. The idea of granting amnesty to tax cheats was t welcomed initially by c he. Who was recruited by Cuomo from a Public accounting firm to take Over a department that collects More than $21 billion annually in taxes. Chu says he does t mind tax cheats hating him for modernizing the department s computer capability that tracks lax evasion. Nor does he care if they hate him for helping persuade Cuomo and the legislature this year to pass major civil and criminal tax penalties before embark ing on an amnesty program. Under the new lax Lav. Individuals who cheat on their state income taxes can be sent to prison for up to four years or fined up to $50,0110. Corporations can be fined up to $250,00 1. And complo. Ers caught withholding payment of state income taxes  draw1 seven year prison sentences. Bootlegging gasoline distributors can lose their tank trucks. With the new penalties in effect Chu said he has changed his mind about a one Lime Only amnesty pro Gram. What s Best for the honest taxpayer is to gel the lax cheats to pay up the taxes they owe and the interest even if it Means forgiving a penalty bul More importantly gelling Ihm on the tax Rolls from Here on out Chu said. Information provided to slate authorities is also made available to the internal Revenue service so the lax cheat who clears his slate with the Szalc this year May be talking to the Federal tax collector next year. Chu said. To Many cheats it s a Gamble to evade lacs. And Chu said the new penalties and the arming of his department s 5,000 employees with a new $65 million computer system have changed the Odds. A computer exec i c he a scaled a whole new detection unit called Rod for Revenue Opportunity division. Rod recently caught 91 doctors who were not filing tax returns by checking payments made by the stale through medicare and medicaid and by Oiler health insurance carriers. Delaware was biggest loser in 2nd Quarter Wyoming sets Pace in personal income growth Washington a Wyoming helped by the must Rucin of a giant Oil project enjoyed the Pargim jump in person Al income of any slate during the second Quarter according to the latest Survey of personal income in the ?0 suites. The Commerce department said tues Day Hal the 3.1 percent Rise in personal income in Wyoming from april through june was far ahead of the   increase of  percent. Other Stales ahead of the National aver ape were Indiana Wilh a 2 percent Ain Kansas Riih a i a percent improvement Arionna up 1.7 percent and Honda with .1 i it percent Rise. Reagan Given 80% of for crisis action Washington flour out of five americans surveyed said they approved of president Reagan s handling of the Achille  crisis according to a poll released wednesday. The hijackers of the italian cruise ship were captured in Italy after their flight aboard an a Gyp Ian jetliner was diverted by . Navy planes to Sicily eighty percent of those questioned in a Washington i Ost acc news poll approved of the american interception of the Ligya Lian Jet the Hosl reported in wednesday s editions. Boosts approval rating the High Marks  received for his actions following the hijacking helped boost his approval rating Lor foreign affairs to 62 percent the highest Rale re corded by the poll in four years. Overall Reagan received a 63 percent approval rating almost unchanged from last month the newspaper said. The National Telephone poll of 1,506 people was conducted from last thursday through monday. Sixty eight percent of those questioned said i hey think it is More important to Lake action against terrorists such As those who hijacked the Achille Lauro. Than to maintain Good relations Wilh coun tries such us Italy. The Survey indicated Hal 73 Pyrc Cal disapproved of Egypt s handling of the hijacking and 57 percent disapproved of Nlaly s actions. At the other end of the scale three slates actually suffered declines in  in come from april through june. Delaware was the hardest hit with a 07 percent decline. That was blamed in Large  on an Effort by Dupont. A big employer in the slate to encourage workers to Lake Early in tire mint in order to trim labor costs. Two other Stales. Alaska with a 0.3 per cent decline and Montana Wilh a  per cent decline were Hurt by cutbacks m Oil exploration and drilling. L a Cheeks in Wyoming were fattened l a big i f percent jump m Corr Irik inti payrolls will much of the increase slain Ming from work on a $2.2 billion i xon  to produce Carbon dioxide for use in refining crude Oil. Men is a Szalc by Stalc list of the percentage of change in personal income from april through june. New England Connecticut. 11 percent Maine.  percent Massachusetts. 1.4 per cent new Hampshire. 1.4 percent. Rhode is land 1.6 percent Vermont. Ii a re Chi. Mideast Delaware. 117 percent de Cline Maryland.  Peic enl new Jersey. 1.2 percent new York ii percent Penn Sylvania 11.7 percent. Ireat i acs Illinois. I percent in Diana. 2 Pyrc Cal . Of pack ii. Ohio. I percent Wisconsin.  percent i a liar Iowa. 0.2 Pyrc Cal i Lisas. I s percent. .  a cruel. Missouri. 11 s percent Nebraska.  percent. North Dakota no change South Dakota. I .7 percent. Southeast Alabama. 1.1 percent a Kansas. 0.4 percent i .  percent i Loreia. 12 percent Kentucky cell i . 11.5 per com percent North Carolina. Of so Iii . I percent i can Pei cent Virginia i i Pyrc Cal. Celia. 0.7 Pyrc Cal Soli lamest an on i. I 7 Perceil Mexico. 1.2 a cum. .  . 12 Pel cd no , \1,.1,111.1.i i lot ado. Cent . 0 7 percent. . Cell a Cine. I tall. I 1 percent. Ii percent i in wc-,1  i. I 2 per .ul.t. I per Ceil. Ire ii. Ii v shiny Toni. 0 s pct enl Ollu is Alaska. 0 i Peic enl Hawaii. I percent distinct of t  percent i 2 per a Szippl. Pyrc Cal Sec. I \ Irgin in. New an emergency medical ech Nivian rides life sating Mouth to Mouth resuscitation to a child that he removed from a burning breath of life building Hal housed battered women and children in the South end Section of bos Ion neither the child nor technician were identified. A woman and one child were killed in the tire which is under investigation by authorities