European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 23, 19bb the stars and stripes Pago 7 irs says tax returns in 88 will be easier Washington a i unfit Sim s annual greetings to lamp Ayers arc ready to be mailed it Hll million americans Complete with an estimate of How Long lamp Ayers can i pc cello spend filling out the farms. The nil Mill Revenue service pre viewed the new lax terms Al a briefing wednesday supplying plenty of reassuring wards Thill taxpayers should find pc. Paring their return s relatively simple this Yea compared h the last filing season. Thai s because there Art few changes being made in the new forms unlike last year when taxpayers had to confront for inc first Lime the sweeping changes made by the landmark tax Reform act while there had been dire predictions Hal befuddled lamp Ayers would throw up their hands in despair because icy could t comprehend the new Law the iks said the filing process went relatively smoothly. Millions of americans were asked to handle Somi very big lax changes and they did so with a minimum of fuss and far fewer mistakes irian any of the so called experts had predicted said a thur Altman chairman of the irs forms committee. Allman said the iks was delivering a double dose of Good news this year there Are far fewer changes and the modifications thai have been made should a cup Clear up confusion uncovered in the first use of the forms. Aitman said one Section which was overhauled concerned the Standard deduction taken by people who do nut items a. 1-ast year Many people either forgot to reduce their taxable income by the amount of the deduction or used the wrong number. In an Effort to simplify things taxpayers this year will be directed to a Section in the instructions that with provide guideline on which figures to use. One of the biggest changes in the forms this year  be noticeable because it is incorporated into the Tan tables. That change will reflect the final reduction in individual lax rates required under the 1986 Law. The new Rales which have been used to compute the amounts withheld from paychecks since last january tax most americans Ai Levels of 15 percent or 28 percent. In addition to cutting lax rates significantly the new tas Law almost doubled personal exceptions reduced or eliminated several Ilmi de deductions and boosted the Standard deduction for i on items ers. For the it Rel time the 1r5 will be sup plying estimates of How King taxpayers can expect to spend filling out their re turns. For a taxpayer using the Standard form 1040, the irs estimates it will re quire 9 hours and 17 minutes o keep he records study the instructions and fill out the form. This docs not count an additional 5 hours and 51 minutes he Agency Esti mails a taxpayer will need to ill out an accompanying schedule a. Used if the taxpayer itemizes deductions and schedule. A used to list income from in Lerest and dividends. By contrast the iks estimated thai the average taxpayer Only needs 53 min Ules to fill out inc i Moez. The simplest irs form which can be used Only by single people who do not plemic and who have taxable income of less than Money machine an Engineer for try financial systems examines various currencies in int. Tested in a digital in Inge system that will scan and process checks credit card receipts airline Neh trs and automated Teller he nun Irungu Olmis. Woman found guilty of harassing rival s5d.ooo, the Agency listed these changes for the 198h forms the individual exemption for a lax payer his spouse and each dependent has been increased from is too to j 1,950. The Standard deduction for those who do not items a has been increased for 1988, fora single person the Deduc Tion will go from 12,540 to $1,000. The deduction for a married couple filing jointly will Rise from $3,760 to s 5,000. Taxpayers will he Able to claim an earned income credited for i98s if they earned less than sls.i7d and a child lived Wilh them. Last year the income Imit was 115,432. The rules governing deductions for Home mortgage interest were Liberal i de in such a Way shut taxpayers who had their inner Cal do Duclion limited in 1987 will Likely be Able to deduct More in Oss. In some cases taxpayers will find they will need to mail heir Rel Unis Loa differ ent processing Center this year As inc irs tries to redistribute its workload to Heller reflect population changes nuke Plant fight led by Dukakis  Al a Mary land woman fails up to three years in prison after being Tonk Ted tuesday of. Making repealed Telephone Calls Loha Rass another woman while Boh were Dat. Ing the same Man. Carolyn Foote. 2s, of Germantown. Also Faco i possible shoo Fine according to her attorney Jshii p. Kudel. She was convicted of Telephone harassment by Montgomery county District court judge i a co Uckno Afier a three hour rial. No sentencing Date was set. The two year Dupuie was the subject of an Oprah Winfrey show broadcast  a. The. Victim. Lorraine Goldstein. Of Gail Casburg burst into tears when me Guckian announced his verdict. Gold Stein has changed her surname to avoid further harassment and asked Itiat her new name nol he disclosed  she  unlisted Telephone number seven times to Csepi . This is obviously a tragic and unfortunate  said Mcguckian who noted fool s of waive behaviour he fore Reading the. Verdict Why it s gone  Long i la never understand Kudel described Goldstein As an in secure person with a desire to be. Rec of Jar cd and suggested she fabricated her Story and pressed charges against Foote be Ciuc she enjoyed he publicity. Goldstein said she dated Jeffrey Doi my casually for about two years w Hin she received the first threatening Call in de Cember 19s6 from a woman who Lold her  him alone or 1 will kill  the Calls.,reached a Peak of 60 per hour . Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone co. Traced numerous Calls to Foo tax Home and to the Rockville Law firm where she worked Goldstein said. Oldt Lein who told police she was 45 in september said she discontinued lick relationship with Dorsey in aprill9th. The harass Eui eased ii year Hui the Calls resumed in Early sepia her. Shortly after her unlisted number was printed in an advertisement for a Roommate in a local newspaper . Fuote denied harassing Goldstein and said the Gaithersburg " onion threatened. Heron several occasions. Porsey testified in Foote s behalf. He also said. He had filed trespassing and other charges against Bolh women be cause of disputes he had with them. Fooie was Given probation before judgment in 1987 on an earlier harassment conviction. Washington Ai i Mas gov. Michael s. Lukakis is Bing to court to try to Block the rest nil of the 1 Pilgrim nuclear Power Plant and promises More Legal fights if Federal regulators is be a Low Power License for the Seabrook Plant in neigh Horing new 1 Lampshire. The nuclear pegu Alor j commission in unanimous votes wednesday cleared the Way for the s5.7 billion Seabrook reactor to receive a Long sought Low Power testing permit perhaps within several weeks and ruled that the i Pilgrim Plant in plym Outh Mas scan slowly begin operations after a shutdown of nearly i rec years. In a related development. Nhuc chair Mian undo  or. Said the commis Sion will not Rule until next year on whether the state and local governments in new York have Legal standing in the licensing procedure for the idled Shoreham nuclear Plant on i Jing Island under fire for reasons similar to those cited by critics of sea Hook. Dukakis who  is impossible to evacuate the seacoast towns around sea Brook and argues Hal he rim should not be restarted without an approved evacuation plan called the commission votes irrational and "  the state s lawsuit tiled in . Circuit court of appeals just hours after the vote Calls the arc action on i Pilgrim arbitrary and capricious and urges an immediate injunction to halt the Plant from getting up to 25 percent Power. Zech said  could gel. Ils Low. Power License which permits testing at 5 percent Power As Early As Jan. 6 if it can set aside $72.1 million. The arc said the. Owners must have thai Money on hand Lor decommissioning costs in ease Seabrook receives the testing permit but never gets a full  License. Seabrook also cannot receive the License which it has sought for More than two years until the atomic safety and Licens ing Board rules on a request by Massachusetts of dals to review alleged problems with the. Opera its response our Iii a june.  of the Plum s emergency plans. But Seabrook officials said to Mccommis. Sion s staff already  that the licensing Board Riecl the slate s request. Ted , vice president at new Hampshire Yankee operator of. Sea Brook predicted Low Power testing would be under Way next month