Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-14 | Page 13 | Action Slated on Delinquent Income Taxes

ACTION SLATED ON DELINQUENT INCOME TAXES Charges Charges' Will Be Filed Unless Unless Unless Un Un- less Prompt Payment Is Made to State The Utah resident who paid his t dollar filing fee and his state income tax is asking what about those who I haven't paid and paid and the answer is that the tax lax commission is working on them Criminal action will result tax commissioners said if it delinquents dont don't get busy Heres Here's the picture There are arc persons who paid their filing fees and f filed led returns to April 8 and 8 and those in this group know that 75 cents out o of every dollar paid represents collection and other costs connected with this years year's taxes Then there are persons who filed Wed unpaid returns for varied rea rca sons Their cases are yet to be con con- There are arc corp corporations which obtained thirty sixty or ninety- ninety day extensions for filing flUng their returns for special reasons N NAMES IES I LISTED ISTED And then there are the others It Itis Itis Itis is these others that the man carrying carry carry- ing his income tax receipt wonders about To begin with a list of names was obtained representing income income income in in- come tax prospects for Utah's first income tax collections Several thousand thousand thou thou- sand names were added from varied sources About were returned for better addre addresses cs Some had moved out of or the state some had died and some had moved within the state The tax commission office is working this list over finding new prospects in la it each day About others are in several classes Some are innocent lawbreakers ers the commissioners say who haven't filed through a lack of understanding understanding un un- un- un of their legal responsibility ity Some as wilful tax evaders will feel the heaviest penalties the law provides There are still others such as housewives who have no independent ent income and who have not filed returns Their absence from the ranks sheds little present light for the tax department which must trace d n each cach case and find out put i if the pros should have filed fied a return TOTAL NOT ESTIMATED How man many of these unaccounted for cases will be completed as income tax taxpaying taxpaying taxpaying paying accounts was not estimated by the commission Likewise the commission commission com corn mission said it was vas impossible to tomake tomake tomake make a reasonable estimate of how much loney they would bring in But as misery loves company the income tax receipt holder knows that the penalties provided by law will be invoked against the evaders The penalty for simple failure to toWe tofile tofile file We a return is a fine of not more than The penalty penally for wilful refusal refusal re re- re- re to file and pay is 1000 This wilful evader further is subject to criminal prosecution and a fine of not more than and six months in jail or both on conviction This is in addition to a 25 per cent penalty on the tax itself