Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1919 — TIME TO AGAIN FILE INCOME TAX RETURNS. [ARTICLE]

TIME TO AGAIN FILE INCOME TAX RETURNS.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—1 n filing their income tax returns for 1919, the taxpayers he given the aid and advice of thousands of employes of the bureau of internal revenue, trained in the intricacies of the internal revenue laws and regulations by correspondence school methods. There has been established by the bureau a “correspondence-study department,” through which is being issued to 3,000 field deputies and as many office deputies .and clerks, courses of instruction in the income and miscellaneous tax sections of the law. Each written lecture contains a careful discussion of the topic involved, such as personal exemptions, depreciation, bad debts, losses, gross and net income, etc. Attached is a quis to be answered by the pupils and returned to Jthe correspondence-study department at Washington, where it is carefully graded. Corrections of errors are sent with the next lecture on the same subject.

The course is not confined to questions of law. “Ethics” is the subject of one of the lectures. The bureau’s representatives are advised to be careful of their personal appearance, to be at all time and under all circumstances, courteous, and “not to -forget to inform the taxpayer of all his rights.” “Whether your intelViewfer be rich or poor, you should be thoughtful to give the same care and attention to both,” the instructions say. “The man who pays a small tax is entitled to as much respect as the man who pays a large tax.” Revenue officers will be sent into every county in the United States to assist the taxpayers in. making out their returns. The date; of their arrival an d the location of their offices will be announced through the press later.