513 - Refunds.

§  513.  Refunds.  Whenever  the commissioner shall determine that any  monies received under the provisions of this article were paid in error,  he may cause the same to be refunded  or  credited,  with  interest,  in  accordance  with  such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, except  that no interest shall be allowed or paid if the amount thereof would be  less than one dollar. Such interest shall be at the overpayment rate set  by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision twenty-sixth of section  one  hundred  seventy-one  of this chapter, or if no rate is set, at the rate  of six percent per annum,  from  the  date  when  the  tax,  penalty  or  interest  to  be  refunded  or credited was paid to a date preceding the  date of the refund check by  not  more  than  thirty  days.    Provided,  however,  that for the purposes of this section, any tax paid before the  last day prescribed for its payment shall be deemed to have been paid on  such last day. Such moneys received under the provisions of this article  which the commissioner shall  determine  were  paid  in  error,  may  be  refunded  or  credited out of funds in the custody of the comptroller to  the credit of such taxes provided an application therefor is filed  with  the  commissioner  within four years from the time the erroneous payment  was made, except if an agreement under the provisions  of  section  five  hundred  ten  (extending  the period for determination of tax imposed by  this article) is made within the four-year period for the filing  of  an  application  for  refund  provided  for  in this section, the period for  filing an application for refund shall not expire prior  to  six  months  after  the  expiration of the period within which a determination may be  made pursuant to the agreement or any extension thereof.