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SOCIAL SECURITY
“Many Rappahannock county, farmers have already filed tax returns for the 1955 calender year," Robert E. Parsons, assistant manager of the Alexandria social security office, announced today. “This year for the first time they have paid self-employment tax for social security protection.” Parsons emphasized that all farmers who netted $400 or more in 1955 from farming must file these returns by April 15, 1956. Proper tax returns and advice concerning taxes can be obtained from the nearest office of Internal Revenue.
Parsons explained, “This social security credit will mean much to farm families. Suppose we take the case of a young and prosperous farmer with a wife and child. His earnings up to $4200 a year are taxable for social security. In the event he should die soon after the close of his second crop year under social security and had made the maximum of $4200 in both yean, the widow and small dhild would receive a monthly benefit of
64.4%