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Thursday, January 8, 1971

QUICKER ACTION NOW. LIKELY ON OVERDUE TAXES

The Inland Revenue Department today (Thursday) advised poople

to pay their taxes on tine because followup action on overdue tax

was likely to take place for soner now than in the past.

spokesman for the department said this was the result of the

partial computerisation of the department's Collection Section.

Taxpayers who d not pay their tax on or before the due date -

should expect the imposition of a surcharge for late payment almost

immediately afterwards with recovery action taking place shortly

after that," he said.

The spokestan also stressed that deferment of payment of tex

would only be considered in the most exceptional cases of hardship sc tat-

requests for deferment would invariably be rejected.

He pointed out that the two instalment system of payment

introduced this year for the first time represented, in itself, r

a substantial concession compared with previous years,

Also, in order to avoid the inconvenience of queueing up at

collection offices, he advised people to pay their tax by post addressed

to the Comissioner of Inland Revenue, Central Mail Office, Club

Lusitano Building, ground floor, Heng Kong.

He said there would be no surcharge if the payments were

reccived into su lang as the envelope was postmarked not later than the

date on which the tax was due as shown in the demand note,

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