Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1947 — Page 7

On Income in Many Service Incomes’ “Are Deductible

(Last of a Series)

By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer "WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—In. general, the rules governing income tax returns for veterans are the same as those for other civilians. | They do have certain exemptions arising out of their ex-service status, which will be summarized in this article.

The following {items of income ate not taxable, and can be ignored when you are preparing your return ~0r deciding whether or not you must file:

Mustering out pay. Anything an enlisted man earned in the service during 1946, prior to discharge. The first $1500 earned by a commissioned officer or commissioned warrant officer prior to leaving the active service. (This exemption applies only to service pay; if any is left over it cannot he extended to civilian earnings, but is lost.) Exemptions Listed Transportation home after dis charge. Government farhily allowance to dependents of enlisted personnel.

Government gratuity to. beneficiary of deceased service man, Bonus from state, county or municipality. Pension and disability pay for inJury or sickness incurred in service, including allowance for ‘paid attendant. Clothing or clothing allowance in connection with demobilization. State unemployment insurance or federal readjustment allowance. Benefits received under War Risk Insurance; or “preminims “refunded on National Service Life Insurance! ‘because of hospitalization for six! months or more. Benefits under GI Bill of Rights| and Vocational Rehabilitation, ine} cluding maintenance allowance, tuition, books, tools, equipment, ete. The value of hospitalization or out-patient treatment at veterans’! hospitals, Proceeds of war risk insurance, ineluding endowment pelicies to! veterans of world war I. Benefits to world war I veterans] under adjusted compensation act, including bonds, their proceeds, or the interest on them while held.

File Postponed Returns The above exemptions : (except the last two) are extended to all men or women who served actively after Dec. 31, 1939, in the army, navy, army air force, marine corps or coast guard, or any of their auxAliaries ~~ WACs, WAVEs, SPARs,| ‘women marines—and also, to comofficers in the coast and | . geodetid survey and in the regular and reserve corps of ‘the public health ‘service who were on active

12°

Quarterly

wis Contey

Taxes

| Payments

‘taxes for the year 1946,

in 12 quarterly Jnstallments. sum on those dates.

If You Were Discharged In: Before July July, 1046 . Auguss, 1946 September, 1946 October,’ 1946 November, 1046 December, 1046 and thereafter

Already

May 15,

Installment Dates for Veterans

: This table shows when. your first installment on taxes on i income, and pre-service demobilized during 1946, t column is the month of discharge, The second column shows when the first installment Is due on taxes for the years from 1940-1945, inclusive. The third column shows when the first installment is due on

If you apply to your collector before the date shown in the second or third column, he will permit you to pay those taxes. Otherwise they are due in a lump

First Installment Date Is— 1940-1945 Taxes

January 15, 1047 February 15, 1947 March 15, 1947 April 15, 1047

June 15, 1047

earned income, will be due if

1046 Taxes March 15, 1947 March 15, 1947 March 15, 1947 March 15, 1947 April 15, 1047 May 15, 1947 June 15, 1047.

passed

1047

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late war. Men, demobilized * during ’ have the privilege of ng pay taxes‘'on service pay earned during war years, and on pre-serv-ice earned income, in 12° quarterly installments. They are required to file postponed returns within six manths after return to the United States and that is the time to ask the collector for the installment. privilege. See Your Collector If you were demobilized before (July the first installment date already has passed on taxes for years from 1940 through 1945. The accompanying table willl show first Sinstallment - dates for men demobilized since June, 1946, so far as back years’ taxes are concerned. The first installment date on 1946 taxes also is shown in the table. So many different tax forms have been used, under so many different lags’ and changing regulations, since the war began, that no veteran who is not a lawyer or accountant can hope to do much with them by himself, If you owe taxes for war years, on which returns were deferred because you were out of the country on active service, you had better

get your financial data together

and go to your collector's office, and ask to have an expert assigned to help you. Inquire About Refunds If your wife had income in your absénce, and filled returns, it would

{be wise to have her go along too,

with her copies of the returns she filed.

It may be that by submitting joint!

returns now you can save money.

Heroine of Flying Tigers In U.S. for TB Treatment

By Seripps-Howard Newspapers SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 9.—The ‘heroine of the Flying Tigers is back on American soil on her way to a Bt. Louis sanitariaum where she will undergo treatment for tuberculosis. She is Miss Edith Dorothy Lillian Yuen, 24, better known to Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s fighting airmen as “Dottie.” She landed at Fairfield army air base, near Sacramento late Tuesday from Honolulu. | An air transport command plane took Miss Yuen aboard at Shanghai. They set her down at Fairfield with loving care, for she is a legend to! the men of the American, as well as the Chinese air forces.

Serves as Secretary

For three years she served the U. 8 army as secretary to Col. R. H. Wise, commandant of units of the 14th. air force which fought the Japs to a standstill before being driven from Kweilin to Liuchow and finally to Kumming. - Miss Yuen moved with the units, taking with

the men the rigors of the successive

evacuations. Her devotion to duty won her the United States meritorious service award. But her experiences impaired her health. After the war, she went to work for a civilian air line Gen. Chennault set-up in China. But she had to give up the job. Suffers from TB

Dr. John F. Shaner, former major

{in the army medical corps diagnosed | her ailment as tuberculosis. He has |

{since returned to this country and is now at Mount Rose sanitarium in St. Louis. There Miss Yuen will go for treatment prescribed by her former comrade in arms, » She hastened to assure reporters that she was in no serious danger. Bright eyed, and brisk in movement, she demonstrated she is far from a helpless invalid. Born in New York, she lived in this country until 1935 when her father 8. D. Yuen, inherited an engineering works in Nantao and took his family there,

You may even have a refund coming, if you paid tax dugjng the war on enlisted pay, or if you paid tax on 1942 income and then earned less in 1943. Ask the collector's of- | fice about that, too,

#4 ‘Waitress ‘Spurns Him,

He Dynamites Cafe

SPARTANBURG, 8S. C.. Jan. 9 (U, P.).—Elderly R. C. Watt who dynamited a cafe which employed the waitress who spurned him was sentenced today to eight years in prison. The prosecution charged” that the 79-year-old suitor had placed dynamite against’ a large plate glass

85 persons inside the cafe: The blast; however, failed to injure Mrs. Bessie Haynes Melehes, who was named as the object of Watt's attention. Another woman suffered a ruptured ear drum. A general sessions court jury convicted Watt of assault and battery with intent to kill.

‘Pay Raise Averts Chicago School Strike

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—A teachers’ strike, scheduled to begin at 7:30 a. m. against the city’s trade, vocational and high schools, was averted today as a result of pay increases announced by the board of education. The board approved an immediate $4,250,000 teachers’ salary boost, together with a long-range schedule calling for additional increases of $13,196,000 if and when the money is available.

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