University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 15, 1987
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IRS gets 19 more work days for taxes in 1987, report says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Just when you had finished your 1986 return and thought it was safe to forget about taxes for a while, the Tax Foundation predicted yesterday that the typical American would have to work another 19 days to pay up for 1987.
Economists at the non-partisan research organization calculated that if every cent a worker earned during the first part of the year was earmarked for federal, state and local taxes, he or she would have to May 3. Viewed by average person would have to work two hours and 43 minutes of each eight-hour day to pay taxes.
Tax Freedom Day 1987 is May 4, two days later than last year.
"This year, the American taxpayer has returned to the same point he was at prior to passage" of the 1981 federal tax cut, the foundation said. Those across-the-board reductions were wiped out by subsequent federal tax increases and a growing tax burden at the state and local levels,
the analysis said.
The news came a day before the deadline for filing federal tax returns, a chore that about 10 million people were putting off until the last hours. Returns must be postmarked by midnight today.
As the deadline approached, financial institutions were doing a booming business in Individual Retirement Accounts, which no longer will be universally deductible after these returns. Professional returns preparers had all the business they could handle, and Internal Revenue Service offices were swamped with last-minute pleas for advice.
The IRS expects 6.5 million couples and individuals to avoid the deadline by mailing a Form 4868, which will bring a four-month extension. But that form must be accompanied by a check for any estimated tax due.
There's another way to postpone the inevitable. Any taxpayer who is out of the United States or Puerto Rico on April 15 gets an automatic two-month extension to file and to pay any tax.
The IRS has been processing returns without any serious hitches this year, but the agency said anyone who waited until the last day to file should expect to wait longer for a refund. Although most refunds will be processed in six to eight weeks, RS spokesman Larry Batdorf said some might require about 10 weeks.
Through April 3, the IRS had received more than 58 million returns, and 78 percent of them had resulted in refunds totaling just less than $30 billion. For all of 1967, the IRS expects 105.5 million returns.
This year's filing season is the last before the big new tax overhaul takes effect. Accountants report that because of widespread news coverage of passage of the new law last year, many people have mistakenly concluded that the provisions affected their 1986 returns.
directed them to take responsibility.
In fact, virtually nothing in the new tax law will change the way a typical taxpayer files 1986 returns.
TOPEKA — The State Board of Education failed to reach a consensus yesterday on what approach Kansas schools should take to combat the spread of AIDS and the incidence of teen-age pregnancies.
The Associated Press
Sex education policies debated
The board is scheduled to act on the recommendations in May, when members also will take up a position as chair of the current sex education guidelines.
The 10-member board grappled for more than an hour with eight staff recommendations that called for requiring some form of comprehensive sex education program in each of the state's 304 public school districts by September 1988.
Other recommendations say the state should set guidelines for the sexuality courses, encourage districts to provide similar voluntary programs for parents, and require teachers, school administrators and education students to undergo basic sex education training.
The proposed policy change, which had been scheduled for a vote today, would delete language
that discourages instruction in public schools on specific birth control methods.
Sharon Freden, assistant education commissioner for education services, presented the staff recommendations to the board and said that a survey conducted in 1980 showed 10.1 percent of all Kansas girls aged 15 to 19 had become pregnant.
Freden said that studies have shown that pregnancies lead about 40 percent of all female high school dropouts to leave school.
"The data related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are of even more concern," Freden said. "While there has been an increase in sexually transmitted diseases in general, it is AIDS which catches our attention because there is no vaccine to prevent it and there is no known cure." Freden said.
She said the number of AIDS cases in Kansas, while still small, has risen at an alarming rate. Freden said there was only one reported AIDS case in the state in 1982, compared to 14 new cases in
1985 and 35 new cases reported last year.
However, at least half of the board members said they had strong reservations about forcing local schools to provide sex education, especially if the state was to set guidelines on what students should be taught about sex.
Board member Marion Stevens, a Wichita Republican, said that making sex education a requirement was like a "red flag" to him because it seemed to violate a tradition of leaving as many decisions as possible to local school boards.
"We're not going to leave it up to the local boards." Stevens said. "We are going to draw up the guidelines. To me, that's like talking out of both sides of our mouths."
Frieden and Education Commissioner Harold Blackburn said the guidelines would serve as suggestions on what material the sex courses should cover, but local districts would be free to disregard the state board's advice.
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