Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 46, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 October 1989 — Page 3

State’s tax collectors will offer new, simpler forms

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) New state tax forms are going out to 2’A million Hoosiers, and revenue officials hope the simpler forms and instructions will make filing easier. The tax returns, which will be mailed next month, feature bigger type and are printed on bet-ter-quality paper to enhance readability. “MAKING IT easier to read was one of our major objectives,” John R. Gildea, revenue commissioner, said Thursday. “But we also hoped to improve the information provided to make sure we were updating practitioners and laymen on any (tax law) changes. “Changing it wasn’t as easy as it may look,” he added. “We started in June, went through a number of drafts, and then gave it to both practitioners and lay people for suggestions,” Gildea said. The department’s new taxpayer rights advocate, Marilyn A. Sadler, said the revised forms have received a good response in previews. “INDIVIDUALS, small businesses and farmers have told us they think this will be better,” she said. One of the primary goals of the department was to get the form on one page. Other changes, some of which are highlighted on the tax booklet’s cover, include:

Undercover cop views seamy side of drug life

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) For three years undercover officer Mike Krawczyk endured sights that would turn most people’s stomachs as he tracked drug dealers. • He saw the child of drug users ask for a bag of marijuana for his sixth birthday. • He saw a drug dealer’s family living in a home with garbage strewn everywhere, with a 30-gal-lon drum filled with burning paper to keep the house warm. • He saw an 8-month-old baby getting high from the marijuana smoke his young mother exhaled into his face. 11 EACH TIME, THE Porter County police corporal kept quiet “You’ve got to turn your back on that to make a better case in the long run,” said Krawczyk, who worked undercover on the county drug unit from 1984 to 1987. “It takes a special kind of person to work narcotics.” Three undercover officers and a part-time coordinator make up Porter County’s drug unit. “Drugs are America’s biggest problem. If we’re not careful, we’re going to wake up in five years and wonder what happened. Solve the drug problem, and you’ll take care of other problems,” Krawczyk said. IF THE DRUG unit completely wiped out drug sales and use, he

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• Elimination of 22 lines on the tax form. • An explanation that Indiana lottery winnings are exempted from state and local taxes. • Estimated tax payment forms on the back page of the booklet They are to be used by taxpayers who do not receive a coupon booklet Also highlighted is the new section requiring motor vehicle information to aid in enforcement of vehicle excise taxes. THE DEPARTMENT, in connection with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, has estimated that 248,000 Indiana vehicles have been registered out of state by Hoosiers so they can avoid paying excise taxes. The revenue department believes that practice has cost the state nearly $75 million annually in lost revenues, Gildea said. Other changes include an updating of the section that allows taxpayers to contribute to the Indiana Non Game and Endangered Wildlife Fund. The eagle used to draw attention to that section has been enlarged. The line that allows the taxpayer to contribute all or part of a tax refund to wildlife and game has been separated from the computation column. The simpler form also will aid the department and cut down on the opportunity for mistakes, Gildea said.

said, 70 percent of the crime uniformed officers see each day would disappear. “Where you have drugs, you have thefts and burglaries. They have to pay for their habit somehow.” Spotting drug dealers and users is much more difficult than spotting a bank robber wearing a mask. “The average drug dealer is the average person. A lot of drug dealers are nice people, the last people in the world you might suspect are selling drugs. It’s such a deceiving business,” he said. AT ONE TIME, Krawczyk thought legalization of drugs might :nd all the crime and underworld activities that go along with it. He doesn’t believe that anymore. “I used to think that might be the solution, but from my experience talking with these people (who have used drugs like cocaine), they talk about the overpowering effects. Look at the number of problems just alcohol causes,” he said. “I don’t pretend to know what the solution is, but I think enforcement and education are the best answers. I know we need continued support from the prosecutor, courts and juries and the continued support of the public. It’s going to take cooperation at all levels.”

Legislative panel okays draft bill hiking fees for out-of-state waste

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A legislative study committee has approved a proposal to hike what it costs out-of-state trash haulers to use Indiana landfills. But a key senator questions the bill’s chances in next year’s short session of the General Assembly. THE DRAFT BILL is similar to Senate Bill 545, the solid waste management legislation promoted by Gov. Evan Bayh which failed in the long legislative session this year. The draft is one of several bills that will be introduced in the 1990 session to regulate the flow of out-of-state garbage into Indiana. There was unanimous support Thursday on the Environmental Issues Study Committee for the unamended draft bill requiring longterm solid waste management planning by local or regional governments. That planning is considered critical by the Bayh administration and legislators, as well as environmentalists. BUT AN AMENDMENT introduced by Sen. Anthony Maidenberg, D-Marion, would add a surcharge to eliminate the economic incentive of exporting trash to Indiana. The surcharge would raise the cost of dumping the out-of-state trash to an amount it would have faced in its home state. “I think the General Assembly needed to see a commitment and

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ANTHONY MAINDENBERG An Impetus for discussion

specific recommendation by this committee,” Maidenberg said. “What we have done today will give impetus to further discussion of the issue.” Sen. William Vbbach, R-In-dianapolis, argued against the amendment, saying the waste management portion of the draft faces enough hurdles to passage without the added liability of being attached to language that may prove unconsititutional. THE U.S. SUPREME Court has determined trash to be an article of

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WILLIAM VOBACH Unconstitutional language

commerce, making it difficult if not impossible for states to assess higher fees against garbage that comes from a second state. Vobach told Maidenburg he was preparing separate legislation that will address the problem of out-of-state trash. The surcharge “is just supercharging the debate. I think the solid waste district plan should stand on its own,” Vobach said, Vobach and the four other Republicans on the study committee caucused briefly, but only he

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GOV. EVAN BAYH His bill failed in *B9

and Rep. Brian Bosma, R-In-dianapolis, voted against the amendment, which passed 9-2. The amended draft then was approved 11-0. MAIDENBERG SAID recent media coverage of out-of-state trash being sent to Indiana had heightened awareness and concern over the problem. “I don’t agree with the assumption that this amendment will appreciably diminish the bill’s chances for passage.”