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One of 'life's certainties' falls due tonight at midnigl
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The In
ternal Revenue Service, new
muscles toned and computers
on-line, is ready and waiting for
any of the millions of Ameri
cans pressing the Monday mid
night tax filing deadline who
hope to beat the system.
The traditional April 15
deadline was stretched by one
day this year, becauseotherwise
returns would have been due
on Sunday. As usual, many peo-
/
pie waited until the last minute.
The Internal Revenue Serv
ice estimates that a fourth of
this year’s 97 million returns
will be filed just before the
deadline.
Tax officials say some will
cheat by understating their in
come. Others, an increasing
number, will not even file a re
turn, a situation the govern
ment is facing with a carrot and
stick approach — tougher pe
nalties and stronger enforce-
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ment coupled with a re-exami: mentally change the character
nation of the tax system itself. of the lax collection system.
Punishment for tax cheaters, No longer will the eu-
varies with the offense, ranging \ohemism of a “voluntary” sys-
from financial penalties to jail vem be appropriate, officials
terms.
With the government scram
bling for every penny in reve
nue it can turn up, Congress \
has armed the IRS with the fil«> to increase the efficiency of
most extensive enforcement ,itSi|udits.And,IRSofficialsem-
and data-collection powers in its <ph^ize, while the number of
history. It has pilot programs ! audits has declined in recent
that, in a few years, will funda- ;yeai\, techniques have im-
i
'ty, because there will be few
hys to escape payment.
Already the IRS is using so-
^sticated mathematical pro-
proved so much that better re
sults are achieved with less man
power.
To back up the claim, they
provide a telling comparison —
in 1979 the IRS audited 2.3 mil
lion returns and uncovered
$7.2 billion in taxes considered
unpaid. In 1983, the agency au
dited 600,000 fewer returns
and uncovered nearly twice as
much unpaid tax, $13.7 billion.
Other IRS weapons include:
—Optical scanners that feed
IRS computers data on the in
terest and dividends paid by fi
nancial institutions, allowing
automatic checks with tax re
turns to make sure the interest
was reported as income. The
system will digest 900 million
payment reports by the end of
1985.
—A pilot project matching
estimated incomes in some
areas of the country with the list
of returns on file. Tbs,
purchase of a new car
trigger questions on
owner has never filed aij
turn.
IRS C Commissioner K
Egger said Friday nen
puter techniques already
added 11 million taxpavt
the number who get exiri
tent ion from invest®
aside from the 1.7 milfo
jected to audits.
Kidnapped American freed in Beiru
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United Press International
BEIRUT — An American
professor and a French ar
chitect kidnapped more than
two months ago were freed
Sunday in Beirut, where shel
ling forced a ban on outdoor
Palm Sunday services in some
Christian areas.
In Tripoli, 42 miles north of
Beirut, security sources Sunday
said six children were killed and
15 people wounded when they
were caught in gunfire between
rival Moslem militias.
The fighting in Tripoli
erupted about dusk, with the
Pink Knights militia pitied
against the Tawheed, a Sunni
Moslem group that supported
ifasser Arafat before the Pales-
inean guerrilla leader was
breed to flee the city in Decem-
>er.
Frank Regier, an engineering
rofessor at the American Uni-
“rsity of Beirut, and Christian
Hubert, a French architect,
v;re released in Beirut during
aiews conference in the home
o Shiite Moslem militia leader
Nbih Berri.
'Regier was calm but the
Frnchman was in a state of col-
lape,” said a Lebanese journal
ist /ho declined to be identi-
fiec “He was sobbing. He
couln’t believe his exes when
he ws shown Nabih Berri.”
Bth men, abducted off the
streets of predominantly Mos
lem west Beirut in February by
unidentified gunmen, wore
sandals and red-and-white
striped pajamas during the
news conference attended by
U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bar
tholomew and Marcel Laugel,
charge d’affaires at the French
Embassy.
Beirut radio said Moslem mi
litiamen loyal to Berri, whose
Amal movement is the largest
of an estimated 27 Shiite groups
in west Beirut, stormed a house
and freed the captives.
Regier, 56, a native of Mont
gomery, W.Va. and a Beirut
resident for 27 years, was be
lieved taken into protective cus
tody by the U.S. embassy. The
embassy refused to discuss his
whereabouts and his wife,
Mary, could not be reached for
comment.
“We are absolutely delighted
to have Frank and Mr. Jouberl
back,” Bartholomew said. “Our
happiness for them also has to
be combined with out thoughts
for the others who remain miss
ing, and we hope to get them
back too as soon as possible.”
Jouberl, in his mid 40s, went
home after his release for a
shave and a bath — his first
since being kidnapped Feb. 15,
a French Embassy spokesman
said.
The Lebanese journalist said
the two men were heldtojt
during their captivity,
said their captors keptj
blindfolds on them butdi
beat or torture them.
Children in white rote
ried candles in Palm Sii
processions outside Clin
churches in west Beirut,
Phalange party banned ou
services in east Beirut
of the fear of more shellinj
Automatic rifle fire
crackled across the Green
separating Moslem westir
from the Christian east,bit
gunfire was light compare
an outburst of shellinj
shooting that killed at lets
people Saturday.
El Salvador president side-steps dispute
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR — Interim
President Alvaro Magana Sun
day refused to take sides in a
dispute over the elimination of
voter registration lists that drew
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a resigation threat from top
electiomfficials.
Angrynembers of the Cen
tral Elecpns Council warned
Saturday *ey would resign un
less Magan vetoed an elections
proceduresbill passed Friday
by a right-Vng coalition in the
Salvadoran IgTslature.
The bill woifd outlaw the use
of voter regisraion lists that
the elections comdl argues are
an important saTegiard to pre
vent double voting ind fraud in
a presidential runofscheduled
for May 6.
Jose Napoleon Duat e of the
Christian Democratic Party, a
moderate who won the first
round of voting March 25, will
face ultra-right candidate Rob
erto d’Aubuisson of the Nation
alist Republican Alliance,
ARENA, in the runoff.
Unless the legislature’s deci
sion is reversed, an old system
of marking voters’ hands with
ink so they cannot vote twice is
expected to replace the registra
tion lists compiled with $3 mil
lion in U.S. funds.
Magana, who has the power
to veto legislation, Sunday de
clined to say whether he would
sign the bill. He probably will
not receive the legislation until
April 24.
“I know absolutely nothing
about how the law is written.
Until I see it, I am going to re
main totally on the sidelines.
Then I am going to study it. I
do not want to say anything
more,” Magana told United
Press International in a tele
phone interview.
Armando Rodriquez Equiza-
bal, president of the five-mem
ber General Elections Council,
demanded Magana’s veto of the
bill, passed by 31 votes in the
60-seat assembly.
“... If not, we will allsii
our resignations," Rodn
Fquizabal said.
ARENA proposed the
change and won supportol
right-wing National Co»
lion Party and the Salval
Authentic Institutional Pam
Supporters said thedii
was necessary because at
sion over the voting list
vented people from votitij
cause they could not f
names or their polling
Three outfits win special awards
By CAMI BROWN
Reporter A&M Corps of Cadets were
Three outfits in the Teas ' lon ° red with special awards
3 - Sunday at the Corps of Cadets
Reveiw and Awards Ceremony
held on Kyle Field.
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The Hochmuth, Jouine and
Moore awards are the highest
awards given to outfits. The ca
dets in the winning units wear a
ord on their uniforms to show
diich award they received.
The highest honor, the
More award was presented to
Sqtadron 10 for being the best
oveall, in such catagories as
marh-ins, inspections, reten-
ion if cadets, scholastic excel-
bnce and intramural partici
pation
Hochmuth cord was ‘awarded
to A-Battery Band for hnliuu \
proficiency. The award is given
to the outfit performing best at
march-ins and reviews, inspec
tions and retention of cadets.
The Jouine cord was
awarded to Squadron 12 for
highest grade point average.
Squadron 10 upset the tradi
tional winners of Moore award,
Company D-l, who had held
the honor for the past three
years.
“It goes to whoever earns it,”
said Mike Walker, commanding
officer of Squadron 10. “We
work to be sharp.”
■.The Jouine, scholastic a*
has gone to Squadron 12fo
of'the last 13 years, said B1
Gomery.
“We have a lot of pre-
and pre-dent school studt
so grades are important,'
said. “We don’t haveanp
study hours set aside, we
encourage better use oftiro
Although some outfits«ii
had been winning the sat
cord for years didn't win
year, there were no unti!
winners in Sunday’scereraM 1
“There weren’t any reals
prises,” McGomery said
the cords move around.”
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