Friday, October 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7
Oil spokesman calls income tax
for companies unfair to industry
AUSTIN (AP) — Stacking a cor
porate income tax atop the high
state franchise tax is simply not fair
to the Texas oil and gas industry, an
industry spokesman said Thursday.
Bill Abington, president of Texas
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Associa
tion, said the Legislature in 1987 in
creased the franchise tax 28 percent,
after a 24 percent increase in 1985.
The franchise tax, Abington told
the Select Committee on Tax Equity,
is based on taxable capital, and thus
places a heavy burden on industries,
such as oil and gas, that require large
amounts of capital.
“From a tax equity viewpoint, it
would not be realistic or equitable to
require a capital intensive taxpayer
to bear the combined burden of the
present corporate franchise tax on
net worth and a corporate net in
come tax,” Abington said.
“A corporate income tax, standing
alone, would not meet the revenue
needs of the state,” he said. “Only
when the income tax is extended to
personal income would sufficient
revenues be generated.”
However, Abington said, “there
appears to be strong opposition to
state income taxes of any kind.”
Austin lawyer Mark Hanna noted
that the professional groups he rep
resented had commissioned a study
that showed a tax on professional
services “could largely act as a lim
ited income tax on the professional.”
That study found tnat extending
the state sales tax to services, at a rate
of 4.5 percent, would raise $1.68 bil
lion a year, excluding health serv
ices, but would result in the loss of
42,700jobs.
But Hanna told the committee if it
did an economic impact analysis that
indicated that “truly a tax on services
is the best alternative for the state of
Texas, I would recommend that our
groups not oppose it.”
Hanna represents professional or
ganizations of realtors, dentists, cer
tified public accountants and engi
neers.
In Advance
Orchestra to open season at A&M
The Brazos Valley Symphony
Orchestra will open its concert
season Saturday at 8 p.m. in Rud
der Auditorium with a perfor
mance of Ludwig Van Beetho
ven’s Ninth Symphony.
The orchestra will be led by the
orchestra’s music director and
conductor, Franz Anton Krager.
A chorus of over 150, led by Vir
ginia Babikian, also will join in.
Krager, like most members of
the orchestra, lives and works in
the local area. He is a lecturer for
the Texas A&M Department of
Philosophy. He has conducted
Rnd performed in several places,
including Western Europe, the
Soviet Union, Africa, Australia
and Latin America.
Tickets for the performance
are available at the MSC Box Of
fice and are $12 for adults, $10
for students and $8 for children
12 and under. Upper balcony
seats are available for $5 with stu
dent identification.
Before the concert, there will
be a preview given by Dr. Daniel
Fallon at 6:45 p.m. in 301 Rud
der. Dr. Fallon is the dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and an ac
knowledged expert on Beetho-
Provider of abortion services joins with adoption agency
AUSTIN (AP) — An effort to
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llem pregnancies to choose adoption
[was announced Thursday by a major
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[new child-placement affiliate.
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[with unplanned pregnancies each
[year,” Margaret Stewart, executive
jdirector of Adoption Affiliates, said
|at a news conference. “In the mean
time, one out of every six couples
has a fertility problem.
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these two groups together and
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will help them understand one an
other through open adoptions.”
In open adoptions, the birth par
ents and adoptive parents commu
nicate with each other in ways rang
ing from an exchange of letters and
E ictures to being together when the
aby is born.
Reproductive Services, which is
run under Nova Health Systems of
San Antonio, has clinics in Austin,
Corpus Christi, El Paso, Harlingen,
San Antonio and Wichita Falls and
in Tulsa, Okla.
The non-profit organization,
which was started in 1973, has joined
with the new Adoption Affiliates to
provide adoption services in the clin
ics along with other reproductive
Organization officialjS said theirs is
the first major abortionb%ervices pro
gram to offer adoptipp services in
the same facilities. In previous years,
Reproductive Services has referred
women to other agencies for adop
tion services.
Marilyn Chrisman, Adoption Af
filiates president, estimated that Re
productive Services has provided
pregnancy-related care — including
services like birth control, abortion
and pregnancy testing — to a total of
750,000 women.
The number of abortions that
have been performed in the clinics
since they opened has not been com
piled, Barbara Siejak, vice president
of Nova Health Systems, said.
“Abortion providers are very close
with their statistics,” Siejak said. “So
many people misuse them.”
The new partnership has started
working with couples and birth
mothers, looking for homes for two
babies that have been born, Stewart
said.
In the program, the birth mother
chooses the adoptive couple through
profiles and letters, she said.
Prospective adoptive couples must
be between 21 and 45 years old and
must have been married at least two
years to be considered, she said.
The couples cannot have more
than one child and they must have a
doctor’s statement that they are un-
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likely to have other children, she
said.
Single people who want to adopt
babies through the program also
must be between 21 and 45 years old
and not have more than one child,
but they do not have to present a
doctor’s statement concerning their
fertility, Stewart said.
The adoptive couple or single
person pays the $9,000 fee for the
adoption, which includes the cost of
hospital care, doctor’s services, fos
ter care for the child, legal fees and
staff fees, she said.
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