Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 19 | May Delay Income Tax Returns Month

MiroiriME TAX REWS MONTH h P:n?.I on the I'a.-t tli.it s.'vcr;il liihly i important cl'.-iaioiu are vpt to be lumdoil ilnwn, rulin'K on vital pmnti : that have bi'en raised by cormiation attorneys at-torneys atrl utlitrs, nuil that con'n'r.'S itM'lf i.J likely to make at lc.t one or twrt chnnpt'.s in the ineoruo tax law of r.M7, tin1 irnitre-Mon prevails anntnp bankers an-1 refresentaitves of lare eorpnrations. as well as by ini-ome tax exj'eii-,, that the coninii.-.Murier ot internal in-ternal revenue may have to extni.l tin; tune tor tiling returns at ka;.t auoLiier month, making it April 1 msteal cf Mar.li 1. 'I he lari;o form. is ju;t r.;a h- in revenue agents in tln wet; the .slips for reporliu paytnents in excels of .Sm) for 'the year U'l" are jnsr out. one .slip for eaeh oers'm pa.i.1, an.l the-e unavonlalile tielays have .-o compli-eatoi compli-eatoi eoii'Iiiions that there is sure to bo. u'l'orJing to Colonel W. II. Chapman, Chap-man, internal revenue collector lor t-'fah ami I.laho, a flood of requests for extrusion, whi'-h, it is believed, will lea I to a general postponement of the filing period. Wirhin a short time list will be prepared pre-pared showing the names of ail persons in t'tah an.l Idaho, who are liuiiie to the income tax. This data will be compiled com-piled from information supplied bv employers em-ployers and statistics available by the Jovernmeut. Un March 1. if the" time for the payment of the income tax is not extended, bv merely cheeking off the names of those who have paid. Collector Col-lector Chapman will have a complete list of nil income tax dodsers. Efforts will then be made to round up the delinquents and fines and other penalties wi,l be imposed. In ease they are found to be truiliy of defrauding or attempting to defraud the government thev can be given prison sentences as well as fines.