§ 26-62-105 - Failure, refusal, etc., to make report or pay tax -- Penalties, interest -- Attorney's fees.
26-62-105. Failure, refusal, etc., to make report or pay tax -- Penalties, interest -- Attorney's fees.
(a) Once an alternative fuels supplier, user, interstate user, or IFTA carrier user of alternative fuels has become liable to file a report with the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration, he or she must continue to file a report, even though no tax is due, until such time as he or she notifies the director in writing that he or she is no longer liable for those reports.
(b) (1) Any alternative fuels supplier, user, interstate user, or IFTA carrier user of alternative fuels who fails, neglects, or refuses to make any report required by this chapter or to pay any tax levied at the time and in the manner required in this chapter in addition to any other penalty provided in this chapter shall be liable for the amount of the tax due, together with a penalty of twenty percent (20%) or a minimum of five dollars ($5.00), whichever is greater, plus interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date due until paid.
(2) If the tax, penalty, and interest are collected by proceedings in court, an additional penalty of twenty percent (20%) of the tax shall be imposed and collected as attorney's fees.