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Show IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX URGED Patriotism May Be Shown by Not Deferring De-ferring Remittances Until 1 June. "Just as much patriotism enn be shown by tlio people in paying their income taxes at once and not deferring remittances remit-tances until tlio last niumcnt in Juno." said Colonel Y. I r. Chapman, Internal revenue collector for t'tah nnd Idaho, yesterday, "hs In any other manner; and it Is urged upon all income-tax payers to ftccompanv their returns with a check or draft for the full amount of the tax. that the government may have the immediate use of the money." At the same time tho fact la not within1 with-in1 Id that taxpayers have until J uno 15 in which to pay their income taxes, but un patriotic grounds it Is urged that advance ad-vance payiitents he made. A discount of 3 per cent per annum is allowed on all ud vance payments, but where the tax amounts to init a low dollars the discount is almost negligible and will doubtless be waived by the taxpayer. If the discount in waived a not at ion to that effect i.K made on the return. Commenting on those who may make ai effort to evade the income tax. Colonel Colo-nel Chapman yesterday referred to such as being not only dishonest, but unusually unusual-ly disloyal. He also out lined It as t lie duty of every patriotic citizen with knowledge of a person liable to the income in-come tax and evading it to report that person to the proper officials. i?uch a man, says Colonel Chapman, is not only out of sympathy with the aims of the government, but is doing the kaiser's work just as f ully as if he were in the service of that despot and world enemy. |