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4-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 18th, 1979 Common errors at tax time Canadians should check their calculations before they file .their tax returns this month. Last year, over two . million errors in arithmetic were caught and adjusted by Revenue Canada Taxation's computers. The second most common .cause of adjustments to. income tax returns in 1978 was the interest, dividends and capital gains deduction. Over 400,000 changes were made to returns because taxpayers either forgot to claim the deduction or. claimed less than they were entitled to. Another claim many taxpayers taxpayers forgot last year was the employment expense deduction. deduction. Approximately 275,000 taxpayers either neglected the deduction or miscalculat ed it. Similarly the standard medical, and charitable deduction deduction was either overlooked or miscalculated by approximately approximately 175,000 taxpayers whose returns were adjusted by tax assessors. Another 110,000 tax forms had to be adjusted so that the income reported by taxpayers taxpayers could agree with the income reported on their T4 information slips. Of 150,000 corrections to claims for the federal tax reduction for children, 83,000 resulted from taxpayers neglecting neglecting to take advantage of the tax reduction. In the area of personal exemptions, 70,000 taxpayers claiming 'other dependants', that is nieces, parents, grandparents grandparents or dependants other than children, had their returns adjusted to agree with the proof of support submitted with their returns. In most cases the claims were adjusted to the maximum allowable. Although many errors on income tax returns can be detected by Revenue Canada's Canada's computers, taxpayers who. fail to claim other deductions to which they are entitled could miss out on the tax savings entirely. For example, neither computers nor assessors at the Taxation Centre's would know whether a taxpayer was entitled tb claim child expenses or the equivalent-to-married exemption. Processing of tax returns at the Taxation centres usually usually takes about eight weeks. Delays are caused when returns are filed without proper receipts, information slips or other necessary information. Each year approximately approximately 500,000 returns are filed without such infer- Smoking climbs for teenage girls More than 90 percent of booklet. For a free copy of the adults believe smoking is booklet for yourself or some- harmful to their own bodies, one you love, contact the But the numbers of teenage Durham Region Lung Assoc- girls who smoke is climbing, iation, your local Christmas And only two-thirds of young Seal people, at 723-3151. woman smokérs realize smoking smoking can harm an unborn baby. 1 •**++++*+*#+*+&+*^*****ihê*M> « Mel Hartwig Excavating ORONO ONTARIO 983-5140 Bulldozing -- Back Hoe Septic and Tile Beds ' Sand, Gravel and Top Soil mation as the name of the processing of income- tax increase in income by averag- ^ taxpayer's spouse, children's returns until taxpayers have ing taxable income over the ages, receipts for charitable been contacted by mail. previous four years. Last donations, Registered Retire- One automatic adjustment year, approximately two mil- ment Savings Plans or tuition to all tax returns is general lion taxpayers saved on fees. Missing, information or averaging which can reduce the average of $100 each as a JOÙ A RATIO NOM/ The more Patio slabs you lay the less grass you have to cut. Orono Fuel & Lumber Ltd. Lumber & Building Supplies - Fuel Oil - Oil Furnaces 983 9167 - Station St. & Hwy. 115, Orono Pregnancy is a perfect time for women to kick the cigarette habit for good, says the Lung Association. A recent survey showéd that 35 percent of women quit smoking smoking during pregnancy; 32 cut back. Another study at Stanford Stanford University Medical Centre, Centre, ' which featured special., techniques to aid behaviour changes, found that one-third of pregnant smokers in the experiment quit smoking and, were still nonsmokers when they were contacted nearly a year later. A Lung Association booklet for pregnant women, "Smok- iqg and the Two of You", pregents these sobering statistics statistics to young mothers-to-be : women who smoke during pregnancy have more stillbirths, stillbirths, spontaneous abortions, abortions, and premature deliveries deliveries than women who don't smoke. The Christmas. Seal people advise all pregnant women to stop smoking to create a life-enhancing envir- oriment for their unborn children. "Your unborn baby doesn't breathe before the moment of birth. But it practices some motions of breathing by . exercising certain chest muscles", muscles", says the Christmas Seal publication. "The effects of cigarette smoke are so immediate - and so powerful that your baby's practice, movements slow down after you smoke just two Cigarettes. Cigarettes. The more cigarettes you smqke, the more you interfere with your baby's 1 preparations for life". The adverse effects of secondhand smoke on new- ■ born babies and young .child- . ren is also presented in the The family is our single most important social institution, which is why your Ontario Government is continuing to take an active interest in supporting and strengthening family life in the province. During 1979, the International Year of the Child, your Ontario Government reminds you that the future of our province depends on our children; the future of our children depends gth of our families. * 1 Margaret Birch, Provincial Secretary for Social Development William Davis, Premier r * 1 Make it a Special Month in a Special \fear