Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-06-17, Page 8• 5.
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rn Advance -Times, June 17, 1981
t throw away
r tax receipts
April 30 has come and
gone, and most of Qanada's
15 million taxpayers have
now heaved a collective sign
of relief.
Although most people are
ready to putincome tax out of
their minds for another year,
they should not throw out
their receipts and records
yet.
After refund cheques and
assessment notices have
been mailed, Revenue
Canada, Taxation begins to
re-examine the tax returns
of thousands of Canadians to
verify claims for personal
exemptions, deductions from
income and expenses
reported on their 1980 in-
come tax returns.
For taxpayers whose in-
come is from wages or
salary, the department
conducts post -assessing and
matching programs. The
returns of taxpayers whose
income is from sources such
as self-employment, invest-
ment, rental property or
commissions are checked
through office examination
or audit programs. In either
The stones
weren't Lynn's
Last week's.report on the
Tnrnberry council
mistakenly indicated that
the clean-up clOne by Bruce
Foxton, for whjch he billed
the township, was at Lynn
. Hoy's property on Highway
86.
In. fact, Mr. Foxton had
cleaned up in front of his own
property in Lower Town.
Hoy's involvement in
the episode was simply that.
last year, when he was a
mernher of the council, he
was contacted by Mr. Foxton
about cleaning up some
stones and other refuse along
the road allowance in front of
his property.
Mr.- ,Hoy relayed the
request to council, but no
action Wasever taken until
:recently, when Mr. Foxton
undertook the clean-up and
then billedthe township.
'the Advance -Times
Tegrets—,thia error, which
arose from a mis-
understanding of ,discussion
at the council meeting.
\ The report also was in.
correct in stating that
council • endorsed • the'
Wingham resolution asking
that alternates be perinitted
•to attend cotinty,council in
• the absence of the regular.
Members. ,
•Councillors initially ex- ,
preised support, but • after
further discussion decided
• thatthe person elected to the
position should take
responsibility to be there and
do the job.
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case, without the necessary
receipts and records, tax-
payers could find that their
claims are hard to sup !'rt.
Through the / post -
assessing prograk a
number of claims are
selected each year for closer
examination. Returns with
such claims as away -from -
home expenses, moving
expenses, income averaging
annuity contracts and ex-
penses against salary may
be subject to scrutiny.,
In addition to the recovery
of , tax from taxpayers who
have made erroneous or
improper claims, this post -
assessing program alerts the
department to problem
areas. In the 1979-1980
program, reassessments
from the post -assessing
program totalled $16,226,585
in additional income tax.
The matching program
involves the computer or
manual matching of in-
formation reported on
various information slips or
receipts with information
submitted by taxpayers.
Information slips such as
T4's, TFALs (Family
Allowance) or T4Us
(Unemployment Insurance)
are matched against the
amounts declared by , tax-
payers, to ensure that all
such income has been ac-
curately reported. Receipts
for payments are also
matched to ensure that the
taxpayers who received the
payments have repord
them.
Not only does this mat-
ching program verify in-
formation reported by
taxpayers, it also provides
clues to people who have
failed to file a return as well
as to cases of fraud. In the
1978-79 matching program, a
total of $20 million in ad-
ditional tax was recovered.
For taxpayers whose in-
come is from sources other
than wages or salary, the tax
department may • conduct
either an office examination
of, their tax return or a field
audit. Both involve the in-
depthexaminatiqu: of a
• taxpayer's •return conducted
eitljer at. thetax. department
or, at . the •• taxpayer's
• residence. or place of
business. Taxpayers may be
asked to provide receipts or
records to justify certain
claims or verify expenses.
Last year the office
examination program
resulted in the assessment of
an additional $32 million in
tax. The audit' prograin
yielded an' additional $408
million in tax.
Aswell as recovering tax
owed; theseverification
programs encourage people
to comply .with the • law.
Anyone who is contacted by
Revenue Canada should be
able to provide supporting
documentation to back up
claims. Failure to have the
proper receipts and •records
could result in a claim being
disallowed.
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WENDY AND HEATHER FINLEY flank little Becky
Hickey at Riverside Park where the girls were enjoy-
ing the Warm summer weather while Wendy and
• Heather's mother, Brenda Finley, and her
Debbie Bauer were basking in the sun.
Review committee to consider
course cuts and school closings
• By Jason Ainslie
Human biases were the
essence of a dispute among
members of the Huron
County Board of Education
June 4, when the board met
for its final regular meeting
of this school year: •
The discussion was over
establishing a citizen review
committee to oversee school
Closures 'and •course cuts,
and Director of Education D.
J Cochrane conceded it is a
isitive issue.
•
He reminded board
members that eachboard
must adopt a policy which
follows certain Ministry of
Education •guidelines and
Which, after receiving riblic .
input, lay . or • lay not lead
to a de, :ion to close a school
or classroom.
In a policy propos 1 to the
board, Mr. Cc hrane
suggested that . voting
members of a schoe tccom-
modation review committee
would include: two members
of a home and school asso-
ciation or two parents of
children attending the school
in question, these to be
DR. RAYMOND F. NICHOLSON
Cindy (Thornton) Nicholson is proud to announce the grad-
uation of her husband, Ray, with a Doctor of Medicine degree
from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Teronto. Grad-
Uation exercises were held on June 11 at Convocation Hall,
Uhiversity of, Toronto.
Ray, a graduate of F. E. Madill Secondary School, is the
son of Alice and Garner Nicholson, Belgrave. He is presently
doing his post graduate training at Wellesley Hospital, To-
ronto, specializing in Family Medicine.
Attending the graduation were Cindy Nicholson, Alice and
Garner Nicholson, Belgrave, and Dorothy and Wilson Thorn-
ton, Bluevale. Following the graduatiOn exercises, a family
dinner was held at the home of Julia and John Madill, Scar-
borough.
elected at a public meeting;
two 'citizens of the area
served by the school in
question, also elected at a
public meeting; one school
board trtistee, appointed by
the board chairman, to
represent the public school
.electors of the area served
by the • school;' and one
trustee, appointed by the
board chairman, from
another area.
It was this last provision
which caused 'concern
among' some. board mem-
bers.
Board • Trustee Frank
Falconer opened the debate
saying this committee would
be useless unless 'the final
three
ed by
ard.
com-
equal
ees as
ause, reco-
t sort
provision allowed'
trustees to be appoint
the chairman of the bo
He suggested the
mittee should have an
number of board trust
outside memberbe
"we'd never get • a
• mmendation from tha
of a cqmmittee (two trustees
at a
and citizens) • th
school be closed.
"The top brass (board)
'doesn't have ally say in that
sort of system," he said.
"What is our purpose of
being here?"
Trustee Jean Adams
agreed. "If a parent has a
child in the system, you can't
explain closures or course
cuts to. him. Parents are
biased. People who come to
the public meetings — and
you know who they are going
to be — are completely
biased. We have to educate
them."
But Trustee Eugene
Frayne pointed out,
"Somewhere, we've got ca-
rried away with the power of
this review committee. What
we have is ' the public
presenting its side, its
feelings, and bringing
recommendations to, the
board. The committee has no
authority..
"We want the public to be
biased," he said, "to prevent
the board from making hasty
decisions."
Mr. Cochrane elaborated
on the power of the cop-
mittee. He said there are two
safety valves on the route to
a school closure: first, there
must be approval from the
reviewing committee for any
recommendations to be
presented to the board; then
the entire board must ap-
prove the recommendations.
"1 weighted the rep-
resentation specifically to
give the citizenry more say
R. W. Bell
OPTOMETRIST
Goderich
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at the committee stage," he
said. "The memo from then
ministry requires that the
public have input."
•"If we load the committee
with trustees, we'll lose that
inpUt,",TruStee John Jewitt
said. •
Board Vic4Abairnian Bert
Morin said that„ after con-
sidering,, the needs of the
students and community, the
purpose of the review is to
examine details of cost. He
said if outside citizens un-
derstand the costs of courses
or schools, then they can be
directly involved with the
solutions to 'problems. "It's
more Than fair with the
community."
Board Chairman Don Mc-
Donald reasoned that where
the public elects two people
to sit on the committee, those
elected members will be
informed andrational.
friend,
Trustee Marion Zinn
added. some perspective to
the discussion; saying that in
the, past decade only one
school was closed and it was
closed by the parents who
wished their children to. go to
schools that had aloft to
offer.
At the end of the
discussion, the board voted
to change the wording of the
committee membership re-
quirements to read that all of
the trustees -serving the -area
of a proposed school closing
will sit on the committee (be
it one trustee or three) as
well as one other trustee not
serving that area.
The • county's secondary
'schools were not included in
the discussions because,
with only five schools ser-
ving the county, chances of a
high school closure are
minimal.
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If this course is to be offered in Huron
County, these people must be contacted
before July 1, 1981.
IAN MORELAND - Maintenance Superin-
tendent, Western Foundry, P.O. Box
460, industrial Road, Wingham Ontario.
NOG 2W0. Phone: 357-3450.
PATRICK NEWINGTON - Manufacturing
Manager, Ex -Cell -0 Wildex. Canada,
P.O. Box 910, 89 Don Street. Clinton, On-
tario. Phone: 482-3461.
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'GERRY KADING - Dashwood Industries
Ltd., Hwy. 4, Centralia, Ontario. Phone:
220-6624.
JACK SHEARMAN - General Foreman,
Bell Aerospace Canada, Division of Tex-
tron Canada Ltd., P.O. Box„ 160, Grand e
'Bend, Ontario. Phone: 238-2333.
WAYNE KENNEDY, Director of Training
& Development, Champion Road
Machinery Group Limited, Goderich,
Ontario. N7A 3Y6. Phone: 524-2601.
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that falls into wires, you
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or killed.
Be extremely careful.
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trees that are near hydro
wires call your local hydro
for advice or assistance.
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A Dramatic Demonstration.
It's often cissumedthat people with rental or physical disabilities cannot
participate in today's complex society.
As a symbolic gesture in this International Year, we've done
something out of the ordinary: we've produced a television commercial -
just to set the record straight.
Consider this. Of the 68 people involved in our production, 42 are
Mentally or physically,disabled: among them, the director, the camera-
man, the set designer and the carpenters, the electrician, the make-up
Ontario
Margaret Birch William Davis
Provincial Secretary for Premier
Social Development
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artist, the•sound engineer, the announcer, many of the musicians and,
the man who wrote the music, who was deaf -hut is better remembered
for being Beethoven.
If you've seen the commercial, you've seen what happens when we
work together! ff you haven't seen it yet, it's a dramatic demonstration
f a single simple point: disabled people should he thought of for what
they can do, rather than what they can't. Ourslogan, created by a man
with a disability, sums it up and says it all: "label us able,
International Year
1981
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of Disabled , ‘,1
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