| IRS offers 'Super' help for stimulus payment
Widening its efforts to help every eligible person get a special tax rebate of $300 or more, the Internal Revenue Service has declared "Super Saturday" this week, and will put in extra hours keeping more than 300 field offices open to offer assistance to those seeking the stimulus payments authorized by Congress last year. Included among the Super Saturday offices is the IRS San Bernardino location at 2900 N. D St. IRS personnel also will visit nursing homes and similar locations to prepare returns. IRS personnel will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Bernardino location, said spokesman Raphael Tulino. They'll answer questions and assist in the filing of tax returns, which is a necessary step for anyone hoping to receive a stimulus payment. IRS partners such as the AARP and United Way are making special efforts on Super Saturday to reach out to those who normally are not required to file a tax return but will do so to receive stimulus payments, the agency said in a news release.
Double check return to avoid the tax man
It's often been said the two certainties in life are death and taxes.
I'm 36 and prayerfully death is still a long way off, so for the time being I'll have to live with taxes.
A month ago my wife, Alecia, and I found out that we were part of the 2 percent of all Americans who are audited by the Internal Revenue Service each year. Our 2006 return, which was completed by Jackson Hewitt here in Corydon, was being questioned.
The chances for an IRS audit are higher depending upon certain types of income, certain amounts of income, certain professions, the types of transactions and the types of tax deductions claimed on a tax return.
The IRS doesn't have enough personnel and resources to examine each tax return, so it selects those tax returns which, upon quick review, have high audit potential and those that are most likely to result in a substantial tax audit deficiency.
Sentencing Delayed In Tax Evasion Trial
Sentencing has been delayed for four men who pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns for 1999. They were scheduled to appear last week in federal court in Aberdeen but the hearing has been reset for June 16 in Pierre. The four who acknowledged underreporting their income are Kurt Bowers, James Bowers and Kent Bowers of Pierre and Jon Bowers of Junction City, Ore. Prosecutors say the charges stem from a complex scheme to conceal assets and income from the IRS by putting them in management companies and trusts in an effort to reduce the tax liability. .
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