Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, February 29, 1988

Issue date: Monday, February 29, 1988
Pages available: 46
Previous edition: Sunday, February 28, 1988

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tax filers committing expensive bloopers by Lisa priest about 80 per cent of Manitoban who have filed their own income tax forms to Date have messed them up and Are due hundreds of Dol Lars less than Treyve Revenue Canada spokesman Brenda Scarcella said a Sample of 500 personally completed income tax returns shows 400 of the tax filers made errors on or missed their tic forms Many of them have missed the surtax or net income tax and will find that they owe hundreds of Dol Lars Scarcella people Are going to find that they were expecting much larger refunds in some will end up owing Scarcella said this is the first year for the new Orange form and she fears Winnipeg taxation Centre will be swamped by similar mis takes on the provinces remain ing can you imagine the Shock of getting this computer form your taxes have changed because of a calculation and then finding out you owe she she said the biggest problem is with those who have neglected to fill out the new on percent Manitoba net income tax based on line the tax was announced in last years to fill it out Scarcella people Are required to take one per cent of their net income and then add it to their provincial As taxpayers Are not properly filling out the Manitoba tax reduction Section for Low income peo probably because of its new location on the tic Cloudy tonight 6 Clouds tomorrow 3 she said people Are also i Stalcu lating the provincial which is a Little different from last years people would Only need to consult the Back tables to find the provincial tax As it Corre sponds to income and then fill it in on the those earning in excess of in taxable income now have to calculate their surcharge by subtract ing from their Basic Manitoba income Scarcella said tax filers Are then see calculation Page 4 free triple Gold coach fault Bob Tedder blames coaching for poor showing final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 it Etc Ono cuss Tui Stratton Nuver 0286 february 1988 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets olympics leave wow town up photo by Scott Taylor Winnipeg free press Calgary cant you feel it there Are those who think they should change Calgary nickname from cow town to not everyone would be in total agreement with that but those people we rent singing cant you feel it at Mcmahon stadium last last the athletes of All of said a teary goodbye to wow town with the tumultuous closing ceremonies of the 15th olympic Winter and How appropriate those Cere monies after Canadas finest figure skating a games in which Brian Orser and Elizabeth Mauley each won Silver medals and the dance pair of Tracy Wilson and Rob Mccall won closing ceremonies were a Celebration of figure produced by Robert Paddy an emmy award finalist and former cd ctr the ceremony was a dazzling show of color and former Canadian olympian Brian Pockar was the artistic Tommy Banks was the music director and olympic figure skating pairs medallist Frances Dafoe was the costume and the stars were the greatest collection of Canadian figures Kat ing heroes Ever it was a fitting ending for a games that Cost i think we showed the world that we have a sense of we like to have a Good time and were a great place to Calgary mayor Ralph Klein we had a tremendously successful games and now Well win the Stanley this City wont be quiet until last nights candlelit ceremonies could not have taken place after a brighter final Day performance than the one staged by vivacious dutch Speed skater Yvonne Van Vangennip won her third Gold medal of the games with a Victory in the single Anderly making Holland an olympic Power during a games dominated by the double Bronze Winner Karen Percy carries Flag for Canada at closing soviet and East German a after athletic performance made the sure there were the likes of Alberto Matti Tamara Tikhonova and Katarina but last night Canadian curler Penny Ryan held her demonstration Gold medal High Tor everyone to but the 16day Winter Barbecue want entirely stifling Security handled with Little intelligence or common sense by an army of worker bees who got no pay for the aggravation they both took and dished caused tempers to flare on a number of the food at the venues was sadly typical of any hockey night in can Ada fare French hamburgers cooked five hours see Calgary Page 4 Mulrone bashing tied to provinces Lack of fund Cash by Glen Mackenzie the chairman of Manitoba Feder Al tory caucus says the province might get More projects approved under the Western diversification fund if it stops bashing the Mulroney government at every Boniface my Leo Duguay said he want trying to suggest the Paw Ley governments penchant for Tak ing shots at prime minister Mulroney and his government was a Factor in handing out Grants under the he added if you want to work it Doest help to it int helpful to engage in fed while this is not a Factor in Manitoba record with fund it is also not it slows things provincial criticism Duguay was commenting on some provincial government officials criticism of Manitoba poor show ing in receiving fund and their frequent criticism of Ottawa on other recent statistics indicate Manitoba has received million in fund ing since the program was announced last fund officials have approved million Worth of projects for British million for Alberta and million for Sas fund spokes Meir have said million of the funding was for the South moresby Park project put together through a Previ Ous government program but announced when the fund was set As they say benefits of a soil project in Saskatchewan wont be limited to that prov and the site of a biotechnology project listed As going to Saskatchewan Hast actually been Industry minister Vic Schroeder told a reporter Manitoba has been treated dismally by the and he believes the time has come to sound the alarm Wayne free press Balmoral men killed in Aerial search for pet by Lisa priest Winnipeg free press Balmoral an air plane search for a pet dog ended with the deaths of two men saturday after when their single engine plane car wheeled into a Muddy Field near this tiny minutes the wife of one of those killed sensed something had happened to her husband As she through he window of her Home to the Field and watched a military plane Circle at Low Altitude Over the about 35 Kilometres North of i kept wondering Why that her Cules was flying Over the Field so Susan said in an interview they Fly Over every once in a while but they dont usually stay that Tamburi discovered a Short time lain her husband Alfred and neighbor and Pilot John died instantly in the crush near their the signal from the planes Emer gency locator transmitter led the c130 Hercules aircraft to the bodies of the two men in the Stonewall ramp Tamburi said her husband and a retired air Canada embarked on the air search for her family pet dog Laddie on saturday after it went missing Fri they were friends that would have done anything for each other and they loved to Tamburi said of her a civil Engineer who worked at a firm in there Are a lot of traps around Here and he thought he might have been caught in one of Clyde superintendent of operation investigations for the Ca Nadian aviation safety said the two seater Citaria champions right Wing smacked into the mud and then spewing chunks of Metal into the 1 have no idea at All what would have caused Johnson said As see two Page 4 Canadian aviation safety Board employees dismantle Light aircraft that see riot Page 4 Schroeder said the province has submitted a thick list of proposals and a thin and would be willing to submit a medium sized one As Well if that might produce Wayne a fund communications officer in said the response from Manitoba firms has see Ottawa Page 4 North loses Eye doctor Over dispute by Alexandra Paul Northern Manitoban Are without ophthalmology services today be cause of a Billing dispute Between the province and the doctor who has delivered the service for the last 10 a spokesman for the Manitoba medical association there Are no longer any ophthalmology services being provided in the entire Northern area of Manito Mma executive director John Laplume this is the first year in the last decade that John a Thompso based family doctor specializing in Eye has not flown to native and Nonna Tive Laplume there Are no other doctors with ophthalmology specializations to re place Laplume Fitzsimon refused comment on the withdrawal but Laplume said the doctor has stopped flying because the Manitoba health services com Mission is refusing to accept his Billing the Man has been providing a needed service for 10 years and now he cant afford to do Laplume Jack insurance manager for said the dispute arose after Fitzsimon billed Misc on see ads Page 4 african police arrest Tutu Cape town Reuter anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu and several other Church leaders were arrested today by police during a protest March on the South african witnesses said they saw them bundled into a police car As they walked from Georges Cathedral to the nearby parliament to protest last weeks government crackdown on Black political police used water Cannon against other churchmen who sat in the Street after the the 1984 Nobel peace prize and scores of other churchmen of All Deomina gathered in the Cathedral for a protest walking four arms they left the Cathedral in a procession to March on where they planned to hold a service and present a petition to president opposition Winnipeg jewish Community is urged to join critics of israeli policy in the West Bank Gaza strip better Winnipeg jets show but its not enough to save them from a 53 loss to Buffalo 23 male Domain hungarian bom Judy Weiszmann just assumed that engineering was a Good career for a but when she came to Canada in she faced extra barriers because of her things have but the image of engineering As a male Domain remains 13 bitter times rising prices Are making French wines much less tasteful in North America darkest week1 to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart gives thanks for support during his darkest week super loto winners winning numbers in last nights super loto lottery Are 2780396 and 2786355 18 19 16 7 15 Poiry 38 15 ossified 17 33 21 30 deaths 13 listings 33 ;