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Manchester's Requirements a Surprise to Landlords “ Straitjacket Rule.” Police Records Or a History of Any Landlord Who Feels a Particu­ Evictions, Jones Said 20 - MANCHF.STF.R HKRALD, MotuUiy, Feb. 11, 198n MANCHESTER FOCUS CONNECTICUT WEATHER BUSINESS Crestfield loses round! I Naming names fun Transplant patient’s Rainy, windy tonight; in NLRB proceeding 11 when it’s a nickname condition improves snow on Wednesday Business Sales tax tables promise savings ... page 3 ... page 11 ... page 7 ... page 2 depreciation life of three years, or 10 In Brief If you're a typical individual, you haven’t any item was equipment such as a computer that the IRS records of how much you spent in sales tax payments. considers to have a five-year deprMiation life. But in an almost too-good-to-be-true attitude, the Thus if you bought a new car for business in M Iot Ro-Vic Inc. hosts talk Internal Revenue Service has supplied tables that Your $9,000, you can claim a $540 direct reduction of your M Ro-Vic Inc. ol Munchesler, u distributor of allow you to claim a "blank check,” with no questions Money's tax (6 percent of $9,000). If it was a $2,500 computer, industrial chemicals and cleaning supplies. asked about sales tax deductions, even though you you can claim $250 (10 percent *2,5M). You sh w announced Friday have no sales receipts and don't want to spend the Worth these credits on line 43 of Form 1040 dnd attach Form that Thomas L. time necessary to dig them out. These tables are found 346. in the IRS instruction booklet accompanying your Sylvia Porter • It seems really too generous, but thejnvestoent Hausc. Product De­ return forms. It contains Optional State Sales Tax velopment Chemist Tables for the states and Washington, D.C., that have credit is allowed no matter when you boughm e item for S|)artan Chemi­ in ’84 as long as you put it into service in Uianrhralpr HrraIJi state and/or local sales taxes. cal Co. of Toledo, • When deciding whether to use the fiat m lle ^ Manchester, Conn. — A City of_.wrs. Village___d<NI Charm_____ * Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1985 — Single copy; 25C Ohio, will be the ■you may claim a sales tax deduction based on your The IRS also has informally indicated it includes as deduction of 20.5 cents per nolle for the first 15,^ guest speaker at a income and family size regardless of your actual sales well such items as gifts, prizes, awards, non-taxable tax payments. miles and 11 cents a mile thereafter bu^"®®„ seminar titled "Pro­ insurance proceeds. The IRS doesn’t say so, but this travel in the car you bought in = duction and Pro- NOTE. You may be needlessly overpaying your would seem to include a tax-exempt interest, too. instead deduct actual expenses cessing taxes if you don't make a minimum use of these The sales tax table is not all-inclusive. You can add 1984 depreciation deduction equal to a ‘ Chemicals." tables! Other money-saving tips; to the sales tax table the amount of sales tax you paid of the cost of your car less half the investment credit. The two-hour pro­ in purchasing a car, motorcycle, motor home, truck, Vietnam says gram, highlighting boat, plane, home (mobile or prefabricated) or When adding depreciation and all other deductible J DON'T OVERLOOK THE SMALL FOOTNOTES actual expenses of using a car, you may find this total cutting oils and at the bottom of the tables. You may get a bigger sales material to build a new home if the tax rate was the is more than you can claim under the 20.5-cent/11-cent cleaning degreas­ tax deduction than is shown in the tabie itself. Small same as the general sales tax and your sales receipt ers, will be held at mileage formula. Then, claim your actual ex^nses if rg;??:, rfei («vr. '• ^ footnote 9 after New York, for instance, expiains that shows how much tax you paid. you have the records to do so. On 1984 business the Quality Inn in a New York City resident can add 107 percent to the Say you bought a new or used car in 1984 for $9,000 it wiii return f purchases of other equipment with an IRS five-year Vernon on Friday. amount shown in the table for New York resident. and paid a sales tax of $720. Say, too, your tax table Feb. 15, at 9 a.m. shows you can claim $390 for sales taxes. You can add life, you can claim depreciation in ’84 of 15 perrent of I Thus, if the table shows allowable sales taxes of $302, a the cost less half the investment credit regardless of For reservations New York City resident can add $323 (107 percent of your $720 car sales tax to the $390 sales tax table or information, call amount and deduct sales taxes of $1,110. when you bought the property in ’M. Or you can 'J*’*te $302) for a total of $625, off up to $5,000of your purchase price in ’84. (You don t 646-3322. Thomas L. Hause • The “income" on which the sales tax may be GIs’ remains get the investment credit on the $5,000 written off.) claimed is not only the adjusted gross income shown SPECIAL TIP: Don’t overlook the fact that you are Attorneys form partnership on line 33 of your Form 1040. The income also includes entitled to an investment credit for '84 if you are an H i employee or self-employed and bought a car, WARNING: If a "luxury” car —costing more than By Paul Anderson of some of the nearly 2,483 Three Manchester attorneys have formed the non-taxable income such as a non-taxable part of $16,666 — is bought after June 18,1984, the investment United Press International Americans still classified as MIAs Social Security, veterans’ and railroad retirement computer, typewriter, the like, for use at work. (Not if law firm of Plepler, Barlow and Bannon, with you bought the item for strictly personal reasons.) credit is limited to $1,000 and the depreciation in Indochina. offices at 172 E. Center St. The attorneys are benefits, workers’ compensation, dividends exclu­ write-off is limited to $4,000 for the first taxable year BANGKOK, Thailand - Viet­ The C-130 was shot down near sion, deduction for a married couple when both work You can claim a direct credit against your 1984 tax of 6 Sanford J. Plepler. MalcolmF. BarlowandGayle percent of the cost of a car, which has an IRS and $6,000 thereafter. nam has agreed to turn -over the Pakse, 285 miles southeast of C. Bannon. and public assistance payments. remains of five more Americans Vientiane, on Dec. 21, 1972, appar­ Plepler received his undergraduate degree killed during the Vietnam War, a ently killing 13 of the 15 men from the University of Connecticut and his law U.S. Embassy official announced aboard. Two c r ^ members para­ degree from Boston University School of Law. He Former Burger Chef Is central room today. chuted to safety. became a member of tbe Connecticut Bar in 1956. The embassy said talks in Hanoi The 13 men who did not escape Barlow received’his undergraduate and Juris last week between the United the plane crash, along with 547 Doctor degrees from the University of States and Vietnam had resulted in other Americans who disappeared Connecticut. Fish company shows off its new buiiding new information on ’’several” in Laos during the war, remain Bannon graduated from the University of cases involving American soldiers classified as missing in action Texas at Austin and received her Juris Doctor who were listed as missing in nearly 10 years after the end of the degree from the University of Houston. action during the Vietnam War. fighting in 1975. By Susan Vaughn LI. Col. Paul Mather, the MIA- Tull said actual excavation work Wilson joins Howland firm Herald Reporter POW officer at the Bangkok on the crash site about 25 miles embassy, said the Vietnamese northeast of Pakse began Monday Daniel Wilson of Manchester has joined the While sitting in the rose and lavendar colonial agreed to turn over the remains of in a large clearing at the base of the commercial real estate and development firm of sitting room of the new D.W. Fish Building on Main five more Americans killed during towering Blovens Plateau. Warren E. Howland Inc. at 555 Main St. Street, it is hard to imagine that the room once housed the war, but no date had been set The remote crash site was Wilson will participate in the marketing and a fa.st-food restaurant and a fruit stand. for the transfer of the remains. reached by helicopter from the management of commercial and industrial real The concrete block walls of the room — which once The United States hopes to provincial capital of Pakse. The estate. Some of Howland's projects in which he was an entire Burger Chef restaurant — are now well receive the bones ”as soon as American MIA team is camping will be involved are the Watkins Centre office camouflaged by dusty rose wallpaper, a chair rail and possible,” Mather said. near the excavation site. condominiums, Ri verbend Industrial Park, and a a huge fieldstone fireplace. The room is the greeting Since 1975, Vietnam has re­ Mather, who did a preliminary new office building to be built this spring in South place for Fish’s real estate clients. turned the remains of 73 U.S. survey of the Pakse crash site in Windsor. Tony Wasilefsky, manager of the D.W.
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