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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. | married people filing joint

‘returms get deductions of.

(UPI) - David and Angela
Boyter’s three divorces and.
subsequent remarriages
were merely shams to avoid
paying higher income taxes,
an Internal Revenue Service
spokesman said last week
and the IRS is making their
case the first to test “tax
divorces.”

IRS spokesman Domenic
LaPonzina said the agency
would sue the Boyters in
federal tax
Washington, D.C. in order
to collect back taxes. The
case is scheduled to begin
next month.

The Boyter were married
in 1966 and have been
divorcing since 1975 because
the standard deduction for
single people fs $2,400, while

court in’

only $1,400 each. .

They claim the IRS
discriminates
married people, making
thegg, pay higher taxes than
single people living together.

‘Since 1975, they have
been getting divorced while
vacationing at the end of the
year in Haiti or the
Dominican Republic.

Boyter, a physicist, and
his wife, a procurement
officer for the federal
government with a private
accounting practice, carn
about $30,000 a year, Mrs.
Boyter said.

She said they paid $11,800
in income taxes last year,

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filing ‘as single adults, They

would have had to. pay an
extra $2,800 if they had filed

asa married | couple, ' she

said.

‘But the IRS said their
divorce is phony and not
intended as a long-term
arrangement. | —_

’

“This was purely and
simply a sham transaction to
get around the law and not a
true divorce and, therefore,

not being allowed,” -: said .

LaPonzina. “It was a sham
transaction. Tax divorces
don’t relieve people of
married status.”

LaPonzina said the federal
tax laws state that a divorce
should not be considered
binding in income tax
matters if its only purpose is
tax avoidance.

Girl refuses gift horse

Disco waitress

TORONTO (UPC) - A local
disco waitress has again
refused to be saddled with a
gift horse from a wou' be
suitor, but the loves uck
customer says he just won't
take neigh for an answer.

“T'm going to work on her.
This girl gives me sort of
vibes,” businessman Doug
Vaughan, 40, said after 19-
year-old Liz Gould refused
again Tuesday night to
accept his gift of a dun
gciding named Dom
Pcrignon.

Vaughan, who runs
Carriage Trade Art = and
Taste Ltd., has twice had the
nine-year-old horse
delivered to the local disco
The Chimes.

“I think it’s funny and a
nice idea, but I just couldn't
accept such a gift,” Gould
said.

Vaughan said he got the
idea of giving Gould the
more than 31,000 gift horse
when the waitress told him
during one of his regular

visits to the night spot that
her hobby was riding.

The businessman said he
hasn't given up trying to woo
the young girl.

“When you see someone
beautiful, you want to give
her something she wants.
You have to have fun. That's
what life is all about.”

Fitness is fun.
Try some.

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