YOUR TAX FORM EXPLAINED

Enclosed is your 1997 United States Internal Revenue Service Tax Form 1040-ES OCR: ‘Estimated Tax for Self-Employed Individuals’. You may use this form to estimate your 1997 fiscal year tax if:

1. You are head of a household and the sum of the ages of your spouse and dependents, minus the ages of qualifying pets (see Schedule 12G), is divisible by a whole number. (Use Supplementary Schedul 142C if pets are deceased but buried on your property.)

2. Your Gross Adjusted Income does not exceed your Adjusted Gross Income (except where applicable) and you did not pay taxable interest on dividend income prior to 1903.

3. You are not claiming a foreign tax credit, except as a ‘foreign’ tax credit. (Warning: claiming a foreign tax credit for a foreign ‘tax’ credit, except where a foreign ‘tax credit’ is involved, may result in a fine of $125,000 and 25 years’ imprisonment.)

4. You are one of the following: married and filing jointly; married and not filing jointly; not married and not filing; jointed but not filing; other.

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