European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes wednesday March 4,1987 irs under fire introduces simpler version of w-4 form stateside Washington up the internal Revenue service attempted to quell a taxpayer revolt Over its w-4 withholding form monday by introducing a new version it Laid the average person can fill out in 15 minutes Hai Rofle 92 million to 94 million people required to submit w-4s already have done so and need not nil out the new form the w-4a, irs commissioner Law rence Gibbs said Bui All taxpayers must submit withholding forms to their employers by oct. I under the new Las Law that look effect new year s Day the w-4a was bom in the uprising that broke outlast november when the irs turned its relatively crude two Page w-4 into a four Page mind Boggier that kit millions of americans screaming for an accountant in Short we misjudged the willingness and capacity of Many taxpayers to handle the additional complexity it takes in order to make withholding More accurately Malch lax liability Cibbs said so we went Back Low Ork to come up with an  the resulting w-4a was dispatched Friday to theoffice of management and budget and will be sent to the Public four to six weeks after approval possibly by mid april Gibbs said everyone can use the new form the irs chief said but he added it will not be As accurate in figuring withholding As the four Page w-4,among the differences Between the w-4 and w-4a the front of the w-4a features a seven line worksheet that is the Only part that must be filled out by taxpayers who get All their income from a Job do no itemize deductions and Are not pan of a two wage earner  half of All people tilling out a w-4a an estimated45 million americans need go no farther Gibbs said adding thai studies indicate the Job lakes Between five and 15 minutes. The Back of the w-4a contains two More work sheets one 10 lines Long and the n Ber 11 lines to reused if one normally itemizes deductions on a tax re turn or if one is a member of a family with two or More wage earners. The w-4 provoked fear in pan because i to table filled one whole Page of the form and the work Sheet took up another Page. The w-4a boils them Down by More than two thirds. 9 the new form ignores the effect on taxes of such income As interest from Bonds and dividends from stocks As Well As Money earned from rents or  who get substantial amounts of thai kind of income might want to stick to the four Page form he said. Gibbs said his Agency had to produce the four-Pagew-4 because Congress ordered it to make tax with holding from workers paychecks More accurate in the Case of the w-4a form the simplicity required to make the form understandable is in part Trade off for accuracy he said. But our nationwide tests Tell us this is a Trade off that most taxpayers Are willing to  people who submit the new form before june 1 will not have to pay any penalties next year if it turns out they had severely underestimated their lax liability Gibbs said. He said the form has been tested in More than 20sessions with More than 200 taxpayers to determine How complicated it will seem to the average  a withholding form is much like trying to design a suit of clothes that fits exactly every person in the country he said. Individual differences make that an impossibility so the Trade off is to make it fit comfortably As Many people As  from left the macintosh be and the macintosh ii Are i step up from the smaller macintosh vim. Apple introduces 2 new computers los Angeles a Apple computer inc. On monday introduced a new generation of computers it Hopes will take a bigger bile out of the corporate mar Ket dominated by International business machines  two new machines the macintosh ii and macintosh be Are the first sold by Apple that will be a Leto run programs written for ism Type personal com  has had difficulty interesting corporations and government in its machines because they were no compatible with ism and lacked slots to plug in special  s been a hot company lately and despite some drawbacks these products could Moke it a super Nova said Stewart Alsop publisher of pc letter a Trade publication. Tim Bajarin an analyst with creative strategies re search International in Santa Clara Calif agreed. This represents a new Era for them Bajarin  ism pc compatibility and the larger Box makes it a More viable product for the corporate  speculation about the new machines in the Pas week pushed Apple s Stock Price up by 11 per Cuni to $70 per share. It had dropped to $ 15 per share in late1985 amid losses layoffs and a management reorganization that resulted in the departure of the company so founder Steven jobs the big message is that the beginning of the second generation of the personal computer Industry has begun said Apple chairman John Sculley. Anyone who is a survivor 1 think is feeling very  Compaq computer corp. Last year led a wave of companies introducing pcs based on Intel corp hot 80386 microprocessor and Industry Leader ism is expected to join in soon. Apple s Mac ii it based on the equally speedy 68020 microprocessor from Motorola. The Mac be with prices ranging from 12,898 to$4,500, is intended to become the Staple of the Mac line for office use. It is an enhanced version of the flagship macintosh plus. It uses the same relatively slower Motorola 6boqo microprocessor but has Roo for the add on features demanded by customers such As extra Speed or  Mac be is already in Moss production and is expected to help the company s finances this fiscal year. The Mac ii is a faster and More specialized machine for engineers who need Speed and High powered graphics capabilities. Shipments with Complete system priced from $4,800 o $10,000, will begin in May. Full production is expected by the end of summer. Ism compatibility for the Mac be and Mac ii willbe made possible with add on products offered by ast research inc. Of Irvine Calif., Apple said at its two Day Applewold seminar. Last year the macintosh eclipsed the Apple ii As the company s biggest seller accounting for More than half of the company s 11.87 billion in  the corporate Market. Apple is aiming at higher education computer aided engineering design and government where its Mac machines have been hampered by requirements for ism compatibility. The Mac ii has six expansion slots while the macs has two floppy disk drives and one expansion Slot. Florida will use buoys to protect Coral reefs key West Fla a More than 60 buoys will be moored near some of the most fragile Coral reefs along the Florida keys to keep bail ers from dropping Anchor on them and destroy ing Coral formations up to 75 years  the Experiment in Monroe county works a string of More than 1,000 such buoys will soon Dot me length of the keys Barrier reef from key Largo to key West says Monroe county Marin Extension service director Jeff Fisher. The Anchor buoys will be moored near prime fishing and diving areas of the lower keys div ers and fishermen will be Able to tie their boats to them rather than drop Anchor atop fragile Coral Heads he said. Smokers 20% More Likely to have stroke study says Tampa Fla. A cigarette smoke Areat least 20 percent More Likely to suffer a stroke than non smokers Sayi a researcher who collected data from a 26-year Survey. There s no question cigarette smoking is re lated to stroke for both men and women for All Ages said or. Philip Wolf a researcher at bos ton University who compiled data from the Fra Mingham heart study a Survey of about 5,000residents of Framingham mass the More you smoke the higher Jour  presented his findings at a three Day con Ference sponsored by the american heart association. More than 500 physicians from a dozen countries attended saintly role Model Choice for homosexuals criticized Baltimore a a roman Catholic Arch Bishop says a Church newspaper article was Way off be in describing a 12th-Century English Saint As Arole Model for Loday s homosexuals. The article in the Jan. 7 Issue of the Catholic review the weekly newspaper of the Baltimore archdiocese has sparked debate within the  Rev. Paul k. Thomas in his Story saintly Model for homosexuals said St. Acl Rcd who lived from about 1110 to 1167, had an erotic attraction to men which remained a dominant Force throughout his  archbishop William d. Borders in an interviewing monday s Baltimore Sun criticized the article and said he wished it never had been published. Go killed in California when pc tank collide fort 1rwin, Calif. A a 25-year-Oldsoldier was killed monday when the armoured personnel Carrier he was driving collided with tank a spokesman for fort Irwin National training Center . 4 Robert l. Douglas or. Died of head injuries during a Field exercise in the Mojave desert sgt Robert Nettles said. Douglas was assigned to the i St brigade of the4th tar div at fort Carson Colo. He was attached to the 1st in 12th inf which began arriving at fort Irwin on feb. 24 for a two week Field exercise. Pm workers to get hike in Cost of living pay Detroit up general motors  announced that its 379,000 hourly workers in the United Stales Are receiving a Cost of living adjustment of 5 cents per hour effective this  the increase a typical pm assembler the most common Job classification will earn 113,53 a hour including the 71 cents in Cost of living pay pm spokeswoman Patricia mall said since 1984, the Cost of living pay has risen from 5 cents an hour to 71 cents. Despite the adjustment Many workers have said they Are angry they will not receive profit sharing ii year because pm s earnings for 1986 declined 26 percent from previous year  motor co. Workers Are to receive typical payments of $2,100 each because of record prof its by the no 2 automaker