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From: kek@5941ux.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: lost nj rebate
Message-ID: <390@5941ux.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 10:47:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 10:47:53 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Sep-83 20:24:24 EDT
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Now hold on there!  I don't think the state should set a deadline for filing
for your rebate and if you miss it you're out your money. A person who fails
to file by the deadline should be allowed to re-file much like an amended
state or fed tax return. Let's remember how the tax rebate got started.

When the state courts directed that it was unconstitutional to support
education solely thru property taxes, the state enacted an income tax
supposedly to finance education. Property owners screamed that they were
already paying thru the nose, and that now the state was enacting yet another
tax.  Therefore, property owners were to get a rebate on the tax that they
paid so as to make the final levy more fair.

In other words, the guy is <ENTITLED> to his rebate, deadline or not!!

In my own case, the rebate amounts to  about a quarter of the additional
taxes I pay. I usually file my claim by return mail after I get the notice
to be sure I don't loose it. With the property taxes we pay, and the income
tax, and the increased sales tax, etc., we really do pay thru the nose in NJ.
So anything you can get back helps.

Ken Kepple
Bell Labs Holmdel
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