Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-27
LAST WARNING
is ISSUED FOR
TAX SLACKERS
All Classes Income Tax Returns
Must BE Filed by 4 O'clock
Saturday Morning.
PROSECUTION WILL FOLLOW
Employers Must Report All Per-
sons in Their Employ Earning
$500 Year or More.

f. D. McCabe. district Solicitor
for the internal revenue service
for this district with Offices at
Peoria. today issued the final
warning to persons amenable to
the income tax law.
All classes of returns must be
into the local Office in the post
Office building before 4 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The local Of
fee will not be open Saturday
night or Sunday and the official
time limit expires April l. There
will be no further extension OF
time.
The attention of employers Is
also called to the information at
source" reports. which must also
be filed before April l. All en-
ployers. large or small, must re-
port all persons in their employ
earning $500 or more a year. This
IS mandatory.
Collector McCabe's final warning
is appended:
Every corporation, partnership
and individual liable for income
and excess profits tax must have
its return on file by April / in
order to avoid delinquency. If
your return is not on file, do not
delay. drop what you are doing
and get busy" Failure to file on
time means at least 50 per cent
and perhaps 100 per cent penalty.
and a specific penalty of fines and
liability for criminal prosecution.
No further extension will be grant
ed-so don't waste time asking for
same-set yourself to the task AMI
have your return on file.
Every single individual whose
net income for 1917 was 81 900 or
more. every married person where
the combined net income Of hus-
band. wife and minor children was
$4,000 or more Every fiduciary
where any one beneficiary Is en-
titled to the distributive interest
in the income from an estate OF
$1,000 or more Every partnership
where the net partnership profits
without considering salaries paid
TO partners was $4,000 or more.
Every corporation whether max
ing money. losing money or break
ing even Every corporation
whether fiscal or calendar year
must report. II fiscal year cor
poration with year ended the last
day of some month during the cal
endar year 1917, then amended re-
turns for such fiscal year period
must be filed.
All corporations having a net in
come Of $4,000 or more must file
an excess profits tax return.
Excess Profits.
All partnerships having a net
income in excess of $4,000 must
file an excess profits tax return.
All individuals engaged in trad,
and having a net income for such
trade or business of $4,000 or more
must also file excess profits tax
return. Every corporation, part
nership. association, insurance
company and individual paying to
another salaries. wages, rent, in
teTest, commissions and other fixed
and determinable income or gains
of $500 or more, must file informa-
ton at source returns on Forms
1899 and 1896, these latter forms
must be filed with the commits
sioner at Washington, D. c.. and
all other forms with the collector
or a deputy collector for the dis
trict in which the individual re-
sides, or the corporation or part
nership has its principal place OF
business.
You, the reader, Will know
whether you have filed or whether
the corporation or partnership
with which Yea are associated has
filed and if not-"get busy'-April
l is the last day. Respectfully,
F. D. McCABE,
Collector