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 and two state statutes could make benefit 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.
The funds are the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund.
Should the tax exempt claim be determined legitimate, Luttjohann said that Kansas' four-year statute of limitations would allow retires to file amended tax returns dating back to 1984 to receive a refund and that if you are a taxpayer who made the April 15 tax deadline, their 1983 returns also would be eligible.
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.
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."
"Our job is to protect retired people; and this time, I think we have
Bill Broeker, Leavenworth freshman, and Howie Erenberg, Iowa City, Iowa, freshman, show their wall of KU basketball clippings.
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for all the pictures
for all the pictures.
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this week if we wanted to
me." Erenberg said.
is time consuming." Broeker
"But it's just like taking a
f film and getting it devel-
l. It's memories."
eeker and Erenberg decided
ve the pictures for the apart-
they are sharing next year
ing them to a big piece of
will be a lot easier taking the out than it was putting them treerock said
Broker and Erenberg are g room for one more picture ar vast collage.
Larry Brown comes back, biggest picture will be of Dick e washing the floor," Erensaid.
ents
bassy
of more than 1,000 universi- mas protesting the forced a man suspected of in- ne killing of a U.S. drug ident Reagan's sending of troops to Honduras last
annex. He did say that Hondufired on the crowd.
Honduran officials took Juan
lasteros from his Tegucigalpa
naid and husted him without a
ane to the Dominican Republic.
public officials put Matta on
a light and he was arrested aboard
S. marshals, according to U.S.
officials.
Also were demonstrating against sense of 3,200 U.S. troops in
1 the maximum-security federal ill, was wanted by U.S. officials the 1985 slaying of a U.S. Drug instraction agent in Mexico.
the troops at the request of wcedo Hoyo after Nicaguraan ontras reportedly entered Honoops later returned home.
eless
the condition to exist," Swall
ple shouldn't depend on govern-
unger alone. It takes everyone,
LINK, to help and make people
said.
in the fight against hunger is aid.
part of KU's War on Hunger Don Johnston, president of the Commerce. The panelists took akow, KU student body president of the Lawrence High members of the audience.