University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 23, 1989
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IRS offers refunds for some 1985 filers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service yesterday authorized a special procedure for getting refunds to taxpayers who had failed to claim all their withheld taxes when they filed returns three years ago.
However, the IRS did not extend the deadline for filing such refund claims, which still are due by mid-December. The IRS has extended the deadline for filing 1984 returns.
The agency also announced that after additional review, it will issue instructions on how to apply for the job. In this case, a same reason on returned files in 1987.
The special refund procedures are
necessary because the acting IRS commissioner, Michael J. Murphy, announced Tuesday the abandonment of a policy under which IRS employees were prohibited from notifying some taxpayers who had submitted withheld taxes when they calculated how much tax they owed.
Murphy said the new policy simply restates the basic IRS position that taxpayers pay only the tax due — no more, no less.
The agency's hand was forced by several employees in the Memphis, Tenn., regional service center, who complained Jr. Dr. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., that the old
policy amounted to stealing from taxayers. One of those employees, Linda Johnson, a returns examiner, took her complaints to reporters.
"On a lot of returns, the taxpayer often failed to notice . . . that money was withheld, especially from pensions." Johnson explained. "A lot of times these taxpayers had paid but they do their returns. When we question them, we hold that taxpayers would have to find their mistaken."
Ms. Johnson said she personally handled dozens of such returns on which taxpayers overpaid their payments and not paid them. Taxpayers were pensioners and the
overpayment was between $100 and $1,000.
In the announcement yesterday, the IRS indicated that most of the taxpayers affected apparently had received lump-sum pension payments which were reported on Form W-2. However, some taxpayers with wage reports on a Form W-2 also could have been affected.
"Taxpayers should review their 1985 returns, especially if tax withholding was reported on a Form 1040 and issued "If taxpayers find that they have earned all their withholding for 1985, they should file a special claim."
News Briefs
Police guarantee freedom for escaped activists
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Four activists who escaped to the West German Embassy emerged yesterday after police guaranteed their freedom.
looking and took a taxi to the embassy in Pretor
"We emerge feeling victorious," said Ephraim Nkeo, one of the four blacks who fled to the embassy Monday from Johannesburg's Hillbrow Hospital, where they had been admitted after joining other detainees in a widespread hunger strike.
The Associated Press
They demanded the release of all other detainees, including one reported new death because of a 35% rise in death.
Nkoe said the four "just marched out of the hospital!" in pajamas while their guards were no
lung and took a taxi to the embassy in Pretoria. They called for the release of the estimated 300 activists still detained without charge and issued a special appeal on behalf of Sandile Thushi, hospitalized in critical condition in Durban after fasting for 33 days. Nkoe said Law and Order Minister Adriana Vlk sent a police general to Durban to determine if Thusi, 26, should be released.
AFGHAN APPPEAL: The Afghan government yesterday asked the United States and 11 other nations, including those of Britain, France and Japan, to reopen their embassies, which were closed because of the Muslim guerrilla attacks on Kabul after Soviet troops withdrew.
A Foreign Ministry statement containing the appeal was read to foreign reporters. Ministry spokesman Mohammed Nabi Amiani said it would be delivered to the United Nations.
The 12 countries closed their embassies in late January and early February as the Red Army completed its withdrawal after nine years of helping the Kremlin re-engage with Russia, supported Muslim guerrillas. The insurgents began fighting after a Communist coup in April 1979.
U. S. MEETS PLO: U.S. diplomats told the PLO in a 4/6-hour meeting yesterday to take practical steps to ease tension in the Israeli-occupied territories, the head of the U.S. delegation said.
U. S. Ambassador Robert H. Pel-
tletrau said U.S. concerns about terrorism were discussed as well as ‘practical steps that can be taken to dispense territories to reduce tensions’.
Yasser Abed-Rabbo, the leader of the three-man PLO side, said progress was made, but he emphasized that the PLO thinks the only road to peace is an international treaty. It is also members of the U.N. Security Council and all parties to the conflict, including the PLO.
The United States reversed its policy of not talking to the guerrilla organization after PLO chief Yasser Arafat in December renounced terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist.
The court, in a broadly worded opinion, said a federal law aimed at curtailing government secrecy did not require the FBI or any other agency to release information about private citizens.
RAP SHEETS SECRET: The FBI may withhold from public disclosure "rap sheets" on some 24 cases, and Supreme Court ruled vested daylight.
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