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Show Tax Advice Provided in Special Schools The Internal Revenue Service announced to this newspaper today to-day its new nation-wide "Monday "Mon-day Opening Program," commencing com-mencing Jan. 9, 1956. Thereafter the Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo offices will provide tax information in-formation services on recurring Mondays, until the April 15 deadline dead-line date for filing returns' is reached. - Local announcements will be made relative to the "Monday opening" dates in other Internal Revenue offices throughout through-out the state. "By localizing on Monday, we hape to provide a better standard stand-ard of -information to the public," pub-lic," stated District Director Charles I. Fox,' who heads up the federal tax setup in this state. "This group instruction will per-mlt per-mlt us to do a. more thorough job with less investment of our own and taxpayers' time than in past year," he added. Last year, throughout the nation, na-tion, the Interm I Revenue Service expended ovi o viif'sgH million in assisting Individuals in the prep-aration prep-aration of returns. Over 12,000 of it employees were engaged in this process. Through its educational educa-tional "Monday Opening" approach, ap-proach, it hopes to materially reduce re-duce this expenditure which will permit more employees"!time for expediting refunds due taxpayers, taxpay-ers, catching up with tax dodgers, dodg-ers, and collecting delinquent accounts. ac-counts. "Although anyone is welcome to our 'Monday Openings,' the information in-formation sessions are intended primarily for those whose language, lan-guage, educational, or physical barriers prevent them from reading read-ing or understanding the instructions," instruc-tions," state director Fox, adding that, "with improved instruction-aj instruction-aj materials, more and more people peo-ple are taking the position that 'no one can prepare my tax form ! better than myself," |