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§ 48-2-30. Remittances

Except with regard to ad valorem property taxes, when an application or return is filed with the commissioner under the revenue or license laws or regulations of this state and an amount is shown on the application or return to be due or to become due, the person required to make the application or return […]

§ 48-2-31. Currency in Which Taxes to Be Paid

Except as otherwise provided in Code Section 48-2-32, all taxes imposed by this title or any other revenue or license law shall be paid in lawful money of the United States, free from any expense to the state or any political subdivision of this state. History. Laws 1804, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 1051; Ga. L. […]

§ 48-2-32. Forms of Payment

The commissioner may receive in payment of taxes and license fees personal, company, certified, treasurer’s, and cashier’s checks and bank, postal, and express money orders to the extent and under the conditions which he may reasonably prescribe by regulations or instructions. A check or money order, when authorized, shall be deemed to be payment as […]

§ 48-2-33. Receipts for Taxes

The commissioner and his agents and employees, upon request, shall give receipts for all sums collected by the commissioner or the department, except when the sums are in payment for stamps, tags, or license plates sold and delivered. No receipt shall be issued in lieu of a stamp representing a tax. When payment of any […]

§ 48-2-35. Refunds

A taxpayer shall be refunded any and all taxes or fees which are determined to have been erroneously or illegally assessed and collected from such taxpayer under the laws of this state, whether paid voluntarily or involuntarily, and shall be refunded interest, except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, on the amount […]

§ 48-2-35.1. Refund of Sales and Use Taxes; Expedited Refunds

If a certificate or exemption determination letter issued by the commissioner certifying that the purchaser is entitled to purchase tangible personal property or taxable services without the payment of sales and use tax has not been obtained and used prior to purchasing such tangible personal property or taxable services, a refund of sales and use […]

§ 48-2-36. Extension of Time for Returns

The commissioner may grant, upon written request, a reasonable extension of time for filing returns, declarations, or other documents required under state revenue laws whenever, in the reasonable exercise of such commissioner’s judgment, a good cause for the extension exists. The commissioner shall keep a record of every extension granted and the reason for the […]

§ 48-2-37. Preparation of Delinquent Returns

In any case in which any return, report, or other information is not filed or made available to the commissioner as required by law, the commissioner may proceed at the expense of the delinquent taxpayer to ascertain such information in any way which the commissioner reasonably considers proper or appropriate; and the commissioner is authorized […]

§ 48-2-38. Due Date; Interest on Deferred Taxes

Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, all state taxes and licenses except ad valorem and income taxes shall be due and payable either with the return or within 30 days after notice, as the case may be. When the collection of any tax specified in subsection (a) of this Code section is deferred under […]

§ 48-2-39. When Date for Payment or Filing on Holiday

When the date prescribed by or imposed pursuant to law for the making of any return, the filing of any paper or document, or the payment of any tax or license fee pursuant to this title or any law relating to the taxation and licensing of automobiles, trucks, or trailers falls on a Saturday, Sunday, […]

§ 48-2-40. Rate of Interest on Past Due Taxes

Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, taxes owed the state or any local taxing jurisdiction shall bear interest at an annual rate equal to the bank prime loan rate as posted by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in statistical release H. 15 or any publication that may supersede it, plus […]

§ 48-2-41. Authority to Waive Interest on Unpaid Taxes

The commissioner may waive the collection of any interest, in whole or in part, due the state on any unpaid taxes whenever or to the extent that he reasonably determines that the delay in payment of the taxes was attributable to the action or inaction of the department. History. Ga. L. 1960, p. 990, § […]

§ 48-2-42. Nature of Penalties

All penalties imposed by law are part of the tax and are to be collected as such. The proceedings to collect the original tax, the tax constituted from penalties imposed, and the interest shall all be conducted in the same manner. Any provision of law for criminal prosecution shall not operate under the tax laws […]

§ 48-2-43. Authority to Waive Penalties

The commissioner may waive, in whole or in part, the collection of any amount due the state as a penalty under any revenue law of this state whenever or to the extent that he reasonably determines that the default giving rise to the penalty was due to reasonable cause and not due to gross or […]

§ 48-2-44. Penalty and Interest on Failure to File Return or Pay Revenue Held in Trust for State; Penalty and Interest on Willful Failure to Pay Ad Valorem Tax; Distribution of Penalties and Interest

In any instance in which any person willfully fails to file a report, return, or other information required by law or willfully fails to pay the commissioner any revenue held in trust for the state, such person shall pay, in the absence of a specific statutory civil penalty for the failure, a penalty of 10 […]

§ 48-2-45. Service of Notice of Assessment

In all cases in which the commissioner is required by law to provide an opportunity to appeal, the assessment of a tax or license fee shall become final if no written appeal is filed by the taxpayer with the commissioner within 30 days of the date of the notice of assessment. For the purposes of […]

§ 48-2-46. Procedures for Protests

Any taxpayer may contest any proposed assessment or license fee made or determined by the commissioner by filing with the commissioner a written protest at any time within 30 days from the date of notice of the proposed assessment or license fee or within such other time limit as may be specified within the notice […]

§ 48-2-47. Final Assessments and License Fees

In all cases in which a protest is lawfully filed by a taxpayer, the commissioner shall consider the information contained in the protest and information submitted by the taxpayer in conference or hearing before the commissioner or his officers or agents. The commissioner shall proceed to make a final assessment or to fix a final […]