Monday, April 17, 1995
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Procrastinators receive two extra days for taxes
Last minute filers expected to crowd post offices,phones
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Today is the deadline for filing federal income tax returns and extension requests.
Taxpayers received two extra days this year because the traditional deadline, April 15, fell on Saturday. Nevertheless, thousands of procrastinators are expected to crowd post offices to make sure their returns are postmarked before midnight.
New England and some upstate New York residents have until tomorrow to mall their returns because the Internal Revenue Service center in Andover, Mass., is closed today for Patriot's Day.
Here are some tips for last-minute filters:
You can obtain an extension
  until Aug. 15, by filing Form 4868.
You can ask the IRS for an installment plan on Form 9465. A new fee this year, $43, will be added to your first payment.
Self-employed people can deduct 25 percent of their health insurance premiums. If you've already filed and didn't take the deduction, send in an amended return using Form 1040X.
IRS representatives will field questions by telephone from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today. The toll-free number is 1-800-829-1040. Busy signals are common.
Parties lessen tax-day stress
Postal service sponsors tax-day dunking booths
The Associated Press
For $1, taxpayers in Santa Rosa, Calif., will have the pleasure of throwing a pie in the face of an IRS agent.
In Harrisburg, Pa., filers can — and no doubt, will — pay to dunk tax collectors in a tank.
And in Manhattan's main post office, tax day will be a circus—literally.
Massachusetts.
Today is the big day for most of the nation, delayed from the normal April 15 because that fell on the weekend. Taxpayers in New England and upstate New York, who send their returns to Andover, Mass., have until midnight tomorrow because today is a state holiday in
It's all part of a trend by the U.S. Postal Service to arrange music, food and fun for folks making the trek to local post offices to beat or meet the tax filing deadline.
Dunking booths are popular this year, with people dressed as Uncle Sam or tax collectors taking the plunge.
In Annapolis, Md., fees paid to dunk Uncle Sam will benefit the Leukemia Society while the local AIDS-assistance network will receive the money raised in Harrisburg, Pa. Taxpayers who successfully dunk a "tax man" in Concord, Calif., will win free postage for their tax form.
In Santa Rosa, the pie-throwing fees will go to the family of a local deputy sheriff killed recently. Several tax agents have volunteered to take turns in the event, say local postal officials.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is providing elephants and clowns to encourage New Yorkers to mail early in the day, and there will be giveaways of headache remedies, antacids and food for the 50,000 people expected.
The Springfield, Mass., post office is renowned for such a good party that some residents save their taxes until the last day just so they can
take part. This year's program features quartets of postmasters singing "Mailhouse Rock," a concert by the University of Massachusetts jazz band and samples of spaghetti and meatballs donated by local merchants.
Ice cream is on the menu at post offices in San Francisco, Lubbock, Texas and Charlotte, N.C.
Pizza, free stamps or T-shirts will be given out by local radio personalities at post offices in Richmond and Roanoke, Va., New Orleans, Philadelphia and Fayetteville, N.C.
The 15-piece Erie Junior Philharmonic will play on tax evening at the main post office in Erie, Pa. and a local high school marching band and a Dixieland band will perform in Cincinnati.
Abilene, Texas, has scheduled a street party outside the main post office. There will be coffee and doughnuts at the Daytona Beach, Fla., post office and coffee and cookies in Olympia, Wash.
be collected by postal workers at 10 East Bay BART subway stations.
Even better, West Sacramento taxpayers will be offered samples of the "Presidential Chili" enjoyed by President Clinton on his recent visit to California.
T-shirts reading "IRS Took the Shirt off My Back" will be handed out by a radio station at the Charleston, W. Va., post office.
In Oakland, Calif., taxpayers don't even have to go to the post office — returns will
Pittsburgh postal workers will hand out pencils with the Postal Service symbol and the boast: "No Tax Dollars Used Since 1882."
On a more sober note, nurses will be on hand at the Staten Island, N.Y. post office to provide blood-pressure screening to taxpayers.
Tax agents, volunteer accountants and others will offer assistance to last-minute taxpayers at hundreds of post offices.
And various headache and stomach medicines will be offered in Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia, New York and other metropolitan areas.
Conference faces opposition
The Associated Press
DENVER — It seemed a cinch to find favor with a conference that is a gathering of governors and state lawmakers that wants to put the states back on an equal footing with Washington.
He may not be facing an uphill struggle.
Some liberals don't like the idea. But neither do some ultra-conservative Republicans, and one of them, a Colorado state senator, is making it his business to stop the Conference of the States before it starts.
The conference will take place only if 26 states pass resolutions promising to take part. To date, 14 have accepted the invitation, and the matter is pending in 24.
But state Sen. Charles Duke fears the confertees will tear up the U.S. Constitution. He is lobbying against the conference by fax, on talk radio and before state legislatures.
The event, tentatively set for October in Philadelphia, was conceived more than a year ago by Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a Republican, with Nebraska's Democratic Gov. Ben Nelson. They say the historic state-federal balance tilts too much toward Washington and they are looking for ways to shift more power back to the states.
"If the people who would destroy our Constitution were to gain control of (the conference), then we see that the potential for the destruction of our Constitution is very high," said Duke, a 52-year-old firebrand who calls himself a "real Republican, as opposed to that nonsense we see in Washington."
After he warned a California legislative committee that the Conference of the States might be dangerous, the panel killed a resolution supporting it.
Already, 12 legislatures rejected or failed to consider participation in the event. The objection often cited was a fear that the conference could become a full-blown constitutional convention that would amend and weaken the U.S. Constitution.
Bewildered and dismayed conference organizers blame the surprise assault from the Republican far right.
"it's clearly been a disruption, and one we didn't expect," Leavitt said. "You would think there would be resistance, but I never thought it would come from the farright."
The Conference of the States has other opponents. Liberals fear it would tamper with civil rights. Some states balk at the cost of joining what might become a long and expensive undertaking.
Duke, an engineer and college teacher who lives north of Colorado Springs in a town called Monument, is a self-proclaimed "messenger" of the Patriot Movement, one of a burgeoning number of little-known organizations that fear the federal government is growing too strong.
Duke also is a vocal member of the 10th Amendment movement, named for the last item in the Bill of Rights which gives states all powers not specifically assigned to the federal government. The movement claims that it is time to invoke the protection against federal excess.
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