Bill Text: WV SB78 | 2008 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting issuance of new business registration certificate under certain circumstances
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2008-01-09 - To Finance [SB78 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2008-SB78-Introduced.html
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-12-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to prohibiting the Tax Commissioner from issuing a new business registration certificate to any new business owned, managed, operated by or in which any person participated as a member of a board of directors, partner, manager or member director of a business that is delinquent in the payment of personal property taxes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §11-12-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 12. BUSINESS REGISTRATION TAX.
§11-12-5. Time for which registration certificate granted; power of Tax Commissioner to suspend or cancel certificate; refusal to renew.
(a) Registration period. -- All business registration certificates issued under the provisions of section four of this article are for the period of one year beginning the first day of July and ending the thirtieth day of the following June: Provided, That beginning
(b) Revocation or suspension of certificate. --
(1) The Tax Commissioner may cancel or suspend a business registration certificate at any time during a registration period if:
(A) The registrant filed an application for a business registration certificate, or an application for renewal thereof, for the registration period that was false or fraudulent.
(B) The registrant willfully refused or neglected to file a tax return or to report information required by the Tax Commissioner for any tax imposed by or pursuant to this chapter.
(C) The registrant willfully refused or neglected to pay any tax, additions to tax, penalties or interest, or any part thereof, when they became due and payable under this chapter, determined with regard to any authorized extension of time for payment.
(d) The registrant neglected to pay over to the Tax Commissioner on or before its due date, determined with regard to any authorized extension of time for payment, any tax imposed by this chapter which the registrant collects from any person and holds in trust for this state.
(e) The registrant abused the privilege afforded to it by article fifteen or fifteen-a of this chapter to be exempt from payment of the taxes imposed by such articles on some or all of the registrant's purchases for use in business upon issuing to the vendor a properly executed exemption certificate, by failing to timely pay use tax on taxable purchase for use in business, or by failing to either pay the tax or give a properly executed exemption certificate to the vendor.
(F) The registrant has failed to pay in full delinquent personal property taxes owing for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the application is made.
(2) Before canceling or suspending any business registration certificate, the Tax Commissioner shall give written notice of his or her intent to suspend or cancel the business registration certificate of the taxpayer, the reason for the suspension or cancellation, the effective date of the cancellation or suspension and the date, time and place where the taxpayer may appear and show cause why such business registration certificate should not be canceled or suspended. This written notice shall be served on the taxpayer in the same manner as a notice of assessment is served under article ten of this chapter, not less than twenty days prior to the date of the show cause informal hearing. The taxpayer may appeal cancellation or suspension of its business registration certificate in the same manner as a notice of assessment is appealed under article ten-a of this chapter: Provided, That the filing of a petition for appeal does not stay the effective date of the suspension or cancellation. A stay may be granted only after a hearing is held on a motion to stay filed by the registrant, upon finding that state revenues will not be jeopardized by the granting of the stay. The Tax Commissioner may, in his or her discretion and upon such terms as he or she may specify, agree to stay the effective date of the cancellation or suspension until another date certain.
(3) On or before the first day of July, two thousand five, the Tax Commissioner shall propose for promulgation legislative rules establishing ancillary procedures for the Tax Commissioner's suspension of business registration certificates for failure to pay delinquent personal property taxes pursuant to paragraph (F), subdivision (1) of this section. The rules shall at a minimum establish any additional requirements for the provision of notice deemed necessary by the Tax Commissioner to meet requirements of law; establish protocols for the communication and verification of information exchanged between the Tax Commissioner, sheriffs and others; and establish fees to be assessed against delinquent taxpayers that shall be deposited into a special fund which is hereby created and expended for general tax administration by the Tax Division of the Department of
(c) Refusal to renew. -- The Tax Commissioner may refuse to issue or renew a business registration certificate if the registrant is delinquent in the payment of any tax administered by the Tax Commissioner under article ten of this chapter or the corporate license tax imposed by article twelve-c of this chapter, until the registrant pays in full all the delinquent taxes including interest and applicable additions to tax and penalties. In his or her discretion and upon such terms as he or she may specify, the Tax Commissioner may enter into an installment payment agreement with the taxpayer in lieu of the complete payment. Failure of the taxpayer to fully comply with the terms of the installment payment agreement shall render the amount remaining due thereunder immediately due and payable and the Tax Commissioner may suspend or cancel the business registration certificate in the manner provided in this section.
(d) Refusal to renew due to delinquent personal property tax. -- The Tax Commissioner shall refuse to issue or renew a business registration certificate when informed in writing, signed by the county sheriff, that personal property owned by the applicant and used in conjunction with the business activity of the applicant is subject to delinquent property taxes. The Tax Commissioner shall forthwith notify the applicant that the commissioner will not act upon the application until information is provided evidencing that the taxes due are either exonerated or paid.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Tax Commissioner from issuing a new business registration certificate to any new business owned, managed, operated by or in which any person participated as a member of a board of directors, partner, manager or member director of a business that is delinquent in the payment of personal property taxes.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
