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Guide Sheet,

Available For

Social Security

A special guide sheet to hdp selfemployed persons in correctly reporting their net income for social security tax purposes is now available, Miss Henrietta Mode, Field Representative of the Alexandria social security office, announced today.

This leaflet, “Helpful Guides on Reporting Your Self-Employment Tax,” he said, has been issued by the Federal income tax forms.

Pointing out that social security benefits payable to a self-employed person and his family in his old age, or to his dependents in case of his death, are based on earnings credited to his social security account, Miss Mode stressed the importance of correct reporting. “It costs the worker as well as the Government additional time and expense when an incomplete or incorrect return has to be ^straightened out,” she declared.

This guide to accurate reporting of self-employment net income is available for the asking at the Alexandria social security office, or may be ob* ' tained at any branch office of the Internal Revenue Service. Miss Mode urges all self-employed persons whose trade or business is recovered by social security to get a copy bfore making out their 1953 Federal income tax form. The social security tax is of 2\4 per cent must •be paid at the time the form is filed on or before March 15.

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