diff --git a/stream/mts/psi/helpers.go b/stream/mts/psi/helpers.go
index b04e9f76..15029e36 100644
--- a/stream/mts/psi/helpers.go
+++ b/stream/mts/psi/helpers.go
@@ -44,19 +44,13 @@ func TimeBytes(t uint64) []byte {
 // HasTime takes a psi as a byte slice and checks to see if it has a time descriptor
 // - if so return nil, otherwise return error
 func HasTime(p []byte) bool {
-	if p[TimeTagIndx] == TimeDescTag {
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
+	return p[TimeTagIndx] == TimeDescTag
 }
 
 // HasLocation takes a psi as a byte slice and checks to see if it has a location descriptor
 // - if so return nil, otherwise return error
 func HasLocation(p []byte) bool {
-	if p[LocationTagIndx] == LocationDescTag {
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
+	return p[LocationTagIndx] == LocationDescTag
 }
 
 // UpdateTime takes the byte slice representation of a psi-pmt as well as a time