Friday, March 23, 1979
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Preparers expect usual tax rush
By TOM ZIND
Staff Reporter
Everything appears to promise that it will not; but in this world nothing is certain but
Benjamin Franklin
With the deadline for one of life's two certainities less than a month away, area tax prepers say they are expecting the usual rush of precrastinators.
The filing deadline for state and federal taxes is April 15.
"We're anticipating a big rush in the next few weeks," said Connie Cowley, head of the
Sunday service is scheduled for Ellsworth
KU Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Office. "It started last night when we had nine people in here."
The volunteer tax service is run by KU law students who work part time to answer questions about taxes and help prepare tax returns.
The office, in 105 Green Hall, is open from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday.
a memorial service for Lucile Elsworth, long associated with the University of Kansas, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Mrs. Ellsworth and her husband, Fred Ellsworth, both KU graduates, worked for the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the University for 39 years.
Richard Wintermute, executive director of the Alumni Association, said, "Their contribution to the University was their workworked at the University all of their lives."
Ellsworth died Tuesday at her residence in Topeka. She was 82.
She is survived by two sons, Stephen of Delmar, N.Y., and Robert, a former U.S. Congressman who now lives in Potomac, Md., and four grandchildren.
Relying on past experience, other
Lawrence friends said they would be
buying the last day for them.
"WE HAVE PEOPLE who come in right up until 5 in the afternoon of the last day to visit," she said. Betty Wilson, employee of the University Tax Services of Kansas Inc., I1E, 8th St.
Wilson said the influx of people started around late January. She said business usually was good until late March and picked up more around April 1.
"Generally, the people who come in late are a little more disorganized," she said.
The people who get their taxes done early in the year are the ones who are eager to get their refund, said Larry Chance, co-founder of Professional Tax Services, 1811 SL. Andrews.
"Those who think they're going to get a refund usually start coming in around the week," she said.
Charlotte Glinka, office supervisor for H and R Block Incc., 723 Massachusetts St., said the company was experiencing its usual slowdown in business.
Chance agreed that business is about to turn upward.
"I's our slack part of the season," she said. "We expect the major load of the season to be on us."
*"IN YEARS PAST, business slacks off around early in mid March and then starts growing back."*
Some tax prepers said they had noticed a slight rise in the volume of business this year.
Glinka said that H and R Block in
2014 had a little more business this
year than last.
"We've experienced about a 6 percent increase over last year," she said.
Chance said his company had had about 20 or 30 additional customers this year.
Most preparas said much of their business involved answering tax-related questions.
"I think most people understand the raw basics of a return," Chance said. "A lot of people will just come in to check to see if their figures are correct."
Chance also said that many people came to a tax preparer out of frustration.
"A lot of people just get fed up with keeping up with the changing tax laws," he said.
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Cowley said about half of the people who came in were there to ask some question about their tax return.
B. J. Hickert, Lenora law student who works in the KU tax office part time, said much of his time was spent helping people fill out their returns.
"We lend reassurance to what they think is the right answer," he said.
Hickert said most of the people who came in were those who had never left a return or exit. "They weren't going," he said.
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