Friday April 8,1988 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas Vol. 98, No. 130 (USPS 650-640) School retirees may be eligible for tax refunds By Kevin Dilmore Kansan staff writer Retired employees of Board of Regents schools who contributed to certain retirement funds might be eligible for tax refunds that could amount to several thousand dollars, a state legislative committee member said yesterday. Oscar Haugh, secretary of the state legislative committee on the American Association of Retired People, said he had received word from his organization's legal counsel that two state statutes could make him paid from two Board of Regents retirement funds tax exempt. The statutes are numbered K.S.A. 74.4923b and K.S.A. 74.4925d. If the money is ruled tax exempt, employees that contributed to those funds could receive a refund on the amount of state taxes they paid on money in those accounts in the last four years. for four years. The funds are the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund. tions include the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University and the Kansas Institute of Technology in Salina. Should the tax exempt claim be determined legitimate, Luttjohann said that Kansas' four-year statute of limitations would allow retirements to file amended tax returns dating back to 1984 to receive a refund and that if retirees were speedy enough to beat the April 15 tax deadline, their 1983 returns also would be eligible. Haugh said that he and the AARP had been working toward the refund for more than a month, after the discovery of the statute. "Our group researched the program and found out something that never should have happened," he said. "I have lost thousands of dollars, and I wouldn't be surprised if the refund ran into several million dollars. 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Broeker and Erenberg decided to save the pictures for the apartment they are sharing next year, bringing them to a big piece of paper. "It will be a lot easier taking the tacks out than it was putting them in." Broker said. "If Larry Brown comes back, the biggest picture will be of Dick Vitalte washing the floor," Erenbeng said. But Broeker and Erenberg are saving room for one more picture in their vast collage. students Embassy crowd of more than 1,000 univere- students was protesting the forced lition of a man suspected of in- ment in the killing of a U.S. drug and President Reagan's sending of onal U.S. troops to Honduras last ored in the annex. He did say that Hondu- police had fired on the crowd. lodged at the maximum-security federal Marion, III., was wanted by U.S. officials lioning in the 1985 slaying of a U.S. Drug nent Administration agent in Afghanistan against tuesday, Honduran officials took Juan Matta Ballasteros from his Tegucigalpa a pre-dawn raid and hustled him without a toto on a plane to the Dominican Republic. ucanic Republic officials put Matte on a rank-bound flight and he was arrested aboard her by U.S. marshals, according to U.S. agreement officials. osteters also were demonstrating against ith's presence of 3,200 U.S. troops in dispatched the troops at the request of Jose Azcona Hoyo after Nicaragua unrising contras reportedly entered Hon U S. troops later returned home. homeless eved. season for the condition to exist," Swall that people shouldn't depend on govern- war on hunger alone. It takes everyone, such as LINK, to help and make people action. he said. e. aware in the fight against hunger is humm said. ich was part of KU's War on Hunger rated by Don Johnston, president of the iber of Commerce. The panelists took ason Krakow, KU student body presintil, president of the Lawrence High unil, and members of the audience.