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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 4, 1968
Kansans slow with tax returns
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
With just 11 days left before the April 15 deadline for filing federal income tax returns—the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has received only 319,907 federal income tax returns from Kansans out of an expected 800,000.
Ed McCreeay, public information officer for the IRS in Wichita, said that of these 319,907 returns, 210,968 were refund returns totaling $33.3 million.
Though such figures are of little solace to citizens who have had to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, those who have not yet paid will have their misery compounded if they fail to meet the deadline.
After the deadline, they will have to pay a five per cent penalty on the taxes they owe for each month they fail to file. After the first month the penalty doubles to 10 per cent and increases by five per cent each following month until the fifth month. After the fifth month the penalty remains at 25 per cent.
Apparently, many people in Lawrence have trouble getting together the money they owe. A survey of 15 Lawrence banks and loan companies reveals that loans during the period beginning in February and ending April 14 are made mostly to people who need it to pay their taxes.
Seven committees of KU-Y need chairmen
Chairmen for seven KU-Y committees will be chosen from applications and interviews April 16, 17 and 18, Ward Coleman, Boise, Idaho, senior and new president of the organization, said.
The committees which need chairmen are Operation Tutor Match, School Resource Volunteers, Special Activities Program, Children's Hour, the Community Study Group, the Financial Resources Committee, and the Youth Friendship Committee which needs two chairmen.
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Former visiting prof to talk on Marx today
Alec Nove, former Rose Morgan visiting professor at KU and internationally recognized as a leading student of Soviet economics, will lecture on "Soviet Economic Reform and Marxist Ideology," at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Nove is director of the department of international economic studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and is editor of "Soviet Studies." This year he is a visiting professor at the Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.
Nove was a Rose Morgan visiting professor at KU in the fall semester of 1962. He taught courses in Soviet politics and economics in undeveloped countries.
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schools to collect material for their classes.
The Community Study Group looks at Lawrence to find situations that need to be remedied.
Operation Tutor Match helps those students who need tutors find them.
The Special Activities Program works with handicapped children and the Children's Hour works with Operation Headstart and the Ballard Community Center in Lawrence to help underprivileged children.
The Financial Resources Committee is a money-making committee.
The Youth Friedship Program has co-chairmen. It is a "big brother, big sister" organization which matches college students with grade school and junior high students who have been recommended by their teachers and guidance counselors.
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Applications for chairmen are available at the KU-Y office and are due April 16. Interviews will be held by the new KU-Y executive officers April 17 and 18.
During that period this year, an average of 38 per cent of all loans from the firms surveyed have been to pay taxes. The loans ranged from $20 to $1,500.
McCreary said 22,675 errors have been found in the 319,907 returns the IRS has processed so far this year.
He said 10,105 people have used the wrong tax table in figuring their returns, 5,599 returns contained mathematical errors, 4,261 taxpayers omitted their social security numbers or furnished incorrect numbers, and 240 either failed to sign their returns properly or did not sign them at all.
Such mistakes, McCreary said, extend the normal five to six week period it takes for people to receive their refunds to at least 10 weeks.
A KU student who did not want to be identified said he makes errors purposely on his returns every year "just to mess up the income tax people."
Another KU student, who also wished to remain anonymous, said one year he wrote his social security number backwards on his tax return. Another year he said he didn't sign his return.
McCreeay said the mistakes do not cause the IRS much trouble because the entire process is computerized. When mistakes are found by the computer it points them out and the Internal Revenue office then sends the return back to the taxpayer for appropriate corrections.
The only major problems the IRS has, McCreary said, are the undeliverable refund checks it has on file.
"People sometimes send their returns in and then move without giving their new addresses to the post office," he said. "Without their addresses we don't know where to send their refund checks."
In 1967 there were 92,703 undeliverable refund checks. These are being held by the IRS and are never destroyed.
According to the annual report of the IRS commissioner, last year there were 71,193,825 individual income tax returns filed by U.S. citizens. Kansans filed 794,870 returns.
Blood drive opens April 22
A blood drive sponsored by the All-Student Council (ASC) and the Lawrence Red Cross will be held April 22-25 in the Kansas Union south lounge.
This year's goal is 600 pints of blood. Last fall 525 pints were given.
A blood donor must be 18 years old or over and weigh 110 or more pounds. Persons under 21 must have parents' approval. Forms for parents to sign are available at the ASC office in the Kansas Union.
As in previous years, various living groups will compete in the blood donations. Last year Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and Delta
Delta Delta sorority received first places in the men's and women's divisions.
Computer science talk to be given Saturday
One of a series of computer science lectures will be given at 11 a.m. Saturday in 306 Summerfield.
The speaker will be Morteza Rahimi, who has recently received his doctorate degree from the University of Iowa. His topic will be "Universal Machines and Languages."
The lecture is open to the public.
Journalism fraternity is chartered
A chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) national journalism fraternity, received its charter and initiated 12 charter members Tuesday night, said Norman Larson, teaching associate in journalism and faculty adviser for the group.
To be eligible for the national journalistic fraternity, a student must be in the top 10 per cent of the senior class of the School of Journalism, have a 2.5 cumulative grade point average if an undergraduate, on, if a graduate student, have 10 hours of A in journalism graduate work, Larson said.
Initiates are Robert H. Campbell, Lawrence senior; Robert C. Dotson, Webster Groves, Mo., senior; Everold Hosein, California, Trinidad, junior; Jackie Kemp, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Cynthia Knocke, Wichita junior; Dana A. Leibengood, Lawrence graduate student; Heather MacDonald, Hutchinson senior; Allan Northcutt, Wichita senior; Gary R. O'Neal, Prairie Village junior; Patricia Pruitt, Topeka senior; Marilyn Riseley, Stockton senior; and Linda Sleffel, Norton senior.
Also being initiated as honorary members are James E. Dykes, professor of advertising; Calder M. Pickett, professor of newseditorial; Gale R. Adkins, associate professor of radio-TV; and Lee F Young, instructor of advertising.
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