South Carolina Code 12-54-46. Exemption certificate violations; penalties; exception
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(A) An individual subject to withholding and required to supply information to his employer pursuant to Chapter 8 of Title 12 is liable for a penalty of five hundred dollars for each of the following violations:
(1) refusing or failing to provide a withholding exemption certificate;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 12-54-46
- individual: means a human being. See South Carolina Code 12-2-20
(2) providing a withholding exemption certificate that claims he is exempt from withholding;
(3) providing exemptions on a withholding exemption certificate exceeding the number of exemptions to which he is entitled; or
(4) requesting a waiver from withholding to which he is not entitled.
(B) An additional five-hundred-dollar penalty is imposed each January first that a violation is not corrected.
(C) The penalty does not apply to an individual described in subsection (A) who has a change in family circumstances that makes his withholding exemption certificate inaccurate unless his employer or the department has informed him to revise his withholding exemption certificate.