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BLOOPER - Signs along the highwvys provide endless entertainment during
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SOCIAL SECURITY NEWS
By C. V. Shelton, Field Representative
FavetteviUe Social Security Office
Why is there a retirement test tor
Social Security? What is meant by this is
that earned income may affect the
number of Social Security checks
received in a given year.
1. Social Security payments are
intended to offset lost income to an
individual when he retires. There would
be no loss of income if payments were
made for all months in the year even
though the worker had not retired.
2. To provide Social Security
payments for all months, to all eligible
persons who had reached retirement
age, despite their continuing work full
lime, would mean Social Security taxes
would have 10 be raised.
Back in 1939, when Social Security
retirement payments first started, no
retirement payment was made for an>
monih in which the eligible worker
earned SI 5 or more. The retirement test
has come a long way since those days!
At present. $2400 may be earned tor
the year. If earnings do not exceed
$2400 payments are made for all 12
months. What happens if earnings
exceed 52400? Are all payments lost? It
earnings exceed $2400. one dollor of
the Social Security payments due for
the year, is withheld for each two
dollars over $2400.
Here is an example. Sam Security is
entitled to a S200 a month Social
Security payment. This year, he expects
to earn S4.000. ("an he get any Social
Security payments0 Yes. he can. In fact,
he will receive 8 monthly checks. His
$4000 earnings exceed S2400 bv
SI (>00
Thank Each And Everyone
For Your Vole And Support
In The May 7th Primary. I Am
Asking For Yolir Vote And
Support Again On |une 4th.
It Will Be Appreciated. Dannie
Deloris McCollum
Dannv Deloris McCollum
Area Incidents
A stereo, tape player, speakers, rifle
and ammuniton valued it 1460 was
reportedly taken from Samuel Phillips'
trailer at Davis Bridge between 6 ajn.
and 5 p.m. Friday.
A pump, iron columns and varnish
valued at more than $138 was
reportedly taken Saturday night from a
home under construction. Reports
indicate the house is owned by Alice
Allen. . .
On May 16 feed weighing 4004? 800
pounds was reportedly taken from
Raeford Livestock Inc.'s hog farm in
Antioch.
A window was broken Sunday night
in an apparent breakin at McCallum's
Grocery at Clay Hill but nothing was
reported missing.
A pickup truck valued at $3,000 was
reportedly stolen Saturday from outside
Frank Bryant's residence in West Hoke.
Owner of the vehicle is listed as John
Archie Baldwin.
Furniture and dishes valued at S88
were reportedly taken from Allendale
Community House between May 13 and
15.
A bicycle reported stolen from
Upchurch Junior Fligh School May 15
was recovered the same day.
Scrap value of 2,400 feet of copper
wire reportedly cut down and removed
at Hilltop Station is $180.
A refrigerator valued at $247 was
reportedly taken May 12 from a trailer
at Wright and Best Trailer Park, N.C.
211 Fast.
Radio, refrigerator and lamps valued
at SI SO were reportedly taken May 11
from Bobby Edward's residence, Rt. 1,
Box 599 A.
A 1963 Hoke High School class ring,
wadding bands and other jewelry valued
at $265 were reportedly, taken May 3
from a trailer in Spftltg--Side Trailer
Park. Complainants are W.L. Priest and
Daitny Hales.
One man has been arrested as the
results of the investigation of a missing
motorcycle complaint filed by Bruce
Dillon, 304 Oakwood Dr. May 17.
Wayne F. Chapman, Rockfish, was
charged with receiving stolen property
and released on S500 bond. He it
scheduled lo appear in District Court
Friday.
Harry Scurlock, Raeford Hotel,
reported a car battery valued at $35
missing May 16. Police are investigating.
At 8:05 a.m. Tuesday, Police were
called to the Raeford Launderette,
Harris Avenue, where a breaking,
entering and larceny was reported.
Reported missing was a radio valed at
$39.95, and a se of metric tools valued
at approximately $100. Police are
investigating the incident.
Police received an anonymous call
May 6 reporting a gasoline pump
unlocked at Long's Bait and Tackle
Shop, 632 W. Prospect Ave. On
investigation Police reportedly found 14
gallons of gasoline valued at $7.71
missing.
How To Appeal Your Tax Audit
Greensboro -- The IRS agen has gone
over your tax return thoroughly. You
have provided all the records available
to answer his questions. Some matters
have been discussed and resolved, but
others still remain unresolved.
The agent now completing his work
papers before your eyes tells you he
hasn't found justification in your
records or your comments to allow
some items claimed on your return
under the law. Therefore, he will write
up a proposed judgment to the tax due,
and you will have 30 days from the time
you receive notice of these proposed
changcs to determine whether you want
to appeal and if you do, which appeal
route to take.
You may not realire it at the
moment, but if you choose to appeal
the agent's findings in the audit, the
procedures open to you have been
simplified where the amount of tax in
dispute is $2,500 or less. Both the IRS
and the Tax Court have made special
provisions properly without innccessary
difficulty.
In the administrative appeals of the
IRS, for example, the taxpayer with
S2.500 or less in dispute may go
through two levels seeking a mutual
agreement without having to make a
written protest.
The levels are a District conference
and a conference with the regional IRS
Appelate Division.
If, at the end of your IRS office
audit, you disagree with the proposed
adjustments of the examining officer,
you may request an immediate
conference with the examiner's
supervisor, and if it is possible, you will
have an opportunity to talk over the
facts, the law, and the arguments upon
which you rely.
However, if an immediate conference
cannot be arranged, you will receive a
copy of the examining officer's report
along with a letter explaining the
appeals process.
If you wish, you may have someone
either represent or accompany you a(
the district or the appelate conferences.
Such representation may come from
any attorney, certified public
accountant, or individual enrolled to
practice before the IRS. These persons
may represent you in your absence at
any or all of the meetings in the appeals
process.,
Both levels of appeal within the IRS
offer the opportunity for a resolution of
the disagreeinent to be reached. About
98 percent of all cases taken through
this process are settled by mutual
-agreement.
Taxpayers who do not resolve the
dispute at the appellate conference or
who do not request such a conference
may petition the U.S. Tax Court. Here
again provisions are made for smaller
tax amounts in dispute, although the
amount must be $1,500 or iess for one
to be eligible for this special Tax Court
procedure.
Additionally, at any point in the
appeals process you may pay the tax
proposed by the examiner and then file
a claim for a refund. If that claim is
disallowed by the IRS or not acted on
within six months, you will then have
the opportunity to file a suit in a U.S.
District Court or in the Court of Claims.
?SURVEY?
Continued from page 1
include no physical changes at
McLauchlin School; increasing
capacities at Scurlock and West Hoke
and decreasing capacity of South Hoke;
removal of 1946 building and part of
1951 building at Upchurch; and removal
of mobile classrooms at Hoke High
School with no additional construction
needed to use this facility as a junior
high school.
Option II recommends construction
of a new high school on a minimum of
40 acres (50 to 100 acres preferred) as
near the present high school as possible.
Recommend student capacity is 950.
( CM. Ancnr i
'JUN'l POLLUTEj
INSTALLING PIASTIC DRAIN TILE - Shod Bullard. left. Ken Bullard. center,
and Hines Locklear, right, install plastic drain tile in open ditch on Wilson McBryde
farm in Dundarrach. When completed ditch will be closed thus /oining two fields
which had been separated by old open drainage ditch. Cost of project is shared
between farmers and federal Rural environmental Conservation Program. Soil
Conservation Service provides technical services.
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