European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Movie legend Greta Garbo Dies at 84 a Page 3 the a Kimhin types authorized unofficial publication forthe . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 3 tuesday april 17, 1990 a a z5t daily and sunday d 8693 deadline too taxing for Man millions end up asking irs for extensions of filing Washington apr internal Revenue service orm 4868 was one of the most sought pieces of paper n the nation monday As an estimated 6 million americans abandoned Hopes of meeting the Midnight dead inc for filing a Federal tax return. Filing form 4868, along with a Check for estimated taxes owed automatically extends the return deadline aug. 15. Irs offices and postal service branches in Many arts of the country were planning extra hours monday to accommodate those who put on the inevitable. The irs did not estimate How Many couples and individuals were waiting until the last minute to file. Jut the Agency predicted that about 34 million returns a More than 30 percent of the 111 million expected this year a would be filed april 17 or later. Residents of new England and new yorkers who mail their returns to the irs service Center in Andover mass., had until Midnight tuesday because monday was patriots Quot Day a state Holiday in Massachusetts. As the 1989 return filing season Drew to a close the tax foundation offered some sobering news the average person will have to work 125 Days this year a through May 5 a just to pay his or her share of Federal state and local taxes. That is the latest Ever for the organization s tax Freedom Day. Last year the nonpartisan research organization put the Date at May 3. It reached May 4 in 1981, before the across the Board tax cuts voted that year took effect. This year the foundation calculated tax Freedom Day in each state and found new Hampshire and South Dakota to be the earliest. April 19. Residents of the District of Columbia and new York will have to work through May 23 to Settle their taxes. The state figures Are influenced not Only by state and local taxes but by personal incomes those with higher incomes tend to have a later tax Freedom Day. The foundation attributed the growing tax Burden to new Laws reducing itemized deductions a social Security lax increase that will Cost workers More than $10 billion this year boosts in state and local taxes and a see irs on Back Page we always wait until moment a the income tax has made More liars out of the american people than Golf ?As.�?��? will Rogers by Randy Pruitt staff writer taxes few people Are at a loss for words when it comes to taxes. Remember Leona a Only the Little people pay taxes Helmsley a few a very few a have translated heir distaste for tariffs into action. Some i cd up bostonian once told England hat taxes weren t their cup of Tea. Perish such a Harbor of protest today even though Tea and everything else is soundly pinched by the tax Man. What have we americans come to in encountering the thing that jolts our blood pressure and Bank accounts. But in opposite directions there is one holdout however. We Call him and her a the last Day  knowing he can t avoid or evade the inevitable he Waits until the last Day to Render unto Uncle Sam what is his. . Service members who stood in line monday in West Germany to get see tax on Back Page of postal unit brings an end to backdating of late returns Ramstein a West Germany a amps a a tax time tradition at some air Force Post offices in Europe died shortly before the 1989 tax deadline. The 7025th air postal so notified local Post offices Friday that they should not backdate mail deposited Between the Midnight tax deadline monday and the first pickup tuesday. A to had always been done in the past but they the postal Squadron checked into it further and realized they can to do it legally Quot said sgt. Rich Romero a Ramstein spokesman. Postal officials made the decision Friday Romero said. Maj. Greg Smith a 17th air Force spokesman said Squadron officials had been i reviewing All procedures when they discovered the traditional backdating suggestion and determined that it was not Correct. A amps l. Emmett Lewis or Ingrid Morgan a a. In life i have to pays amps. L embed Lewis or Marcelles Sneed a a. Procrastination Quot tax Law unfair to Naf workers lawyer tells court by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a . Tax officials treatment of employees of non appropriated fund organizations is patently unfair a an attorney told a Federal appeals ourt monday. Gerald Kafka who represents an Naf employee in in Germany said the tax Reform act passed in 01 broadened a provision that allows Many Ameri ans overseas to escape taxes on the first $70,000 they Arn in a Given year. Naf employees should be eligible for this Benefit Kafka said in Oral arguments before the . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia but the internal Revenue service says the provision called the foreign earned income exclusion is designed to avoid forcing americans who work for foreign companies abroad to pay taxes to the United states and to the country in which they work. The irs maintains that Naf workers Are . Government employees for tax purposes and can to claim the exclusion. David Matthews an employee of the army Community and family support Center in Schwet Zingen West Germany contends that because none of the More than 30,000 Naf workers overseas Are paid with taxpayer funds they Are not . Government employees and should be Able to claim the exclusion. Non appropriated fund agencies generate most of their own revenues with Little or no tax support. Examples include the army and air Force Exchange service and numerous morale welfare and recreation activities such As Bowling alleys and Golf courses. Kafka told the three judge panel that Congress has repeatedly made distinctions Between Naf workers see Naf on Back Page expanding role of women in uniform a pages 13-15