A, Everyone is entitled to the basic personal exemption of $2,270,

Q. Can I claim my common-law wife and our children? A. Since a common-law wife is not considered a spouse for income

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Blaxghips

Q. I did not receive a T4 slip from my previous employer. have to repari the income?

A. Yes, all income must be repor Jorward T4 slips to the last known address of the recipient on or before February 28 each year. if you have not received a Td silp by the second week in Marc, you should contact your

" elmpioyer,

After all reasonable attempts have been made to obtain the ~

information stip, your income and deductions, Canada Pension - ‘Plan contributions, Unemployment Insurance Premiums and Tax Deductions should be estimated on your return, Forward bay stnbs if possible. Attach a fetter staring that you were unable to obtain a T4 slip and outline the estimated information, Also, give your employer’, ‘sfull name and address,

Q. Iam married with a wife and two children, one seven and the

Other seventeen, My wife and children did not earn any income - Jast year. What exemptions am I entitled to claim?

You may also claim a married exemption of $1,990, a $780 exempiion for pour seventeen-year-old and a $430 exemption » for your seven-year old.

When making your claim be sure to give ail the information requesied on page 2 of your income fax return, For more details, cheek your 1977 Tax Guide,

tax purposes, you cannot claim the married exemption for her.

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Dol Q. I understand that 1 ray y be eligible to-claim two feral tax

reductions this year. Please explain. '

ted. Employers are requited to A, Everyone is eligible for the general tax reduction, The minimom

general tax reduction you are eligible jo claim is either the amount of your basic federal tax or $200, whichever is less, Beginning this year there is atax reduction for children, Basical- ly, you can claim an additional tax reduction of 550 for each dependent child living in Canada and under 18 years ‘of age on December 31, 1977, (The number of children that you claim should be shawn on line 63 on page 4 of your return.) , The maximum amount you can deduct for the two federal tax reductions is the least af:

(a) the total of your general tax reduction and your tax reditc=

tion for children (6) your basie federal tax

() 3500. For more information see Item 49 in your Tex Gutde,

Q. Can I transfer funds from my Registered Home Ownership

Savings Plan into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan?

A. Effective April 1, 1977 you are no longer able to transfer RHOSP

Junds tax-free into a@ RRSP or a registered pension fund or plan. You can still, however, transfer your funds inte an income. averaging annuity contract,

For more information see Item 23 in your 1977 Tax Gutde.

Q. My wife owns the house we live in. Can I apply for a Regis-

tered Home Ownership Savings Plan?

You can, however, claim the children ax dependents provided A, Starting January 1, 1978, you may no longer apply for a RHOSP

that you and not your common-law wife supported them.

Sex Questionnaire Deplored -

have never happened and

" the form prepared

the Revente "Dep! Depart. ment’s Child Support Enforcement Agency asked women to disclose the number, of times they had sexual intercourse with their child’s father, whether they had in- tercourse with any other person at the same time and whether they were

a mistake,” Deput Revenus bapa John Messenger told a of angry atate

foals Islaters. ‘

id should currently having sexual

relations with anybody.

angry earlier in the week when they learned of the questionnaire and

married cmild welfare recipients were being

forced to fill it condition of state aid. - married

or make any more contributions to an existing plan if at the time you apply, you are living with your spouse whe owned a home during that year and the immediately preceding year and anyone lived in that property diering those years,

that he initiated the ‘Legislators became questionnaire to satisfy a of federal funds for ald to ~ dependent children programs around the

country, Nash said the federal. regulation said wun- “an te in the ala. > “co-operal eB - lisment of paternity and * the collection of s payments from fa tors . as a condition te federal

then

scovered that un-

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* POACHERS KILL DEER

" taken by ‘Toomead ‘hunters, says the state department of natural. resources, The laws = againat poaching allow for the

confiscation of guns and even cars used by. buntera.:

CoOWs OBEY ‘BUZZER

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Old dogs can't learn new" tricks, but cows can, says the

magazine | Wallace's Far- ;

mer. The reports that aclentists have trained cows to enter a parlor whenna sounds, by ving trained the cows them a mild electric shock if they did not enter the buil after the buzzer went off.

EAGLE GETS REVENGE

buzzer

Zaporoshye Region in the Ukraine found himself being dive-bombed by an angry eagle which-me had driven

legal .

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off as it was attacking a hare. The eagle attacked twice and Antonov was forced to. fend it off with his bicycle.

CANADIAN at their kind set up to test pollu-

programs.

tors found the was a

Conétitution’s —_right-to-

privacy provision and said they were prepared

overnment contributes . ‘s program to aid dependent children.

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