New Jersey Statutes 54:50-26.3. Review, verification of tax compliance status
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:50-26.3
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(2) As to licensees for which the director has received any information set forth in paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection a. of section 3 of P.L.1985, c.158 (C. 54:50-26), from any State agency, including from the Division of Taxation, independent of any information identifying the licensee as a business entity, the director shall review the State tax compliance status of each such licensee and verify compliance with the business registration requirements of any State tax administered by the Division of Taxation. The director shall notify a person not registered with the division and provide that person with 10 days to comply with that registration requirement.
b. (1) If the State tax compliance review of any license holder discloses a State tax indebtedness of that person reduced to judgment by the filing of a certificate of debt by the director or a State tax indebtedness finally determined after the exhaustion of remedies provided pursuant to the “State Uniform Tax Procedure Law,” R.S.54:48-1 et seq., or following the failure of a person to exercise available remedies, then the director shall notify the person of the intent to demand the suspension of the person’s license by the State agency. No additional right to protest or appeal the State tax indebtedness shall be available to any person pursuant to this paragraph.
(2) If the State tax compliance review discloses a State tax indebtedness that (a) is not a certificate of debt, (b) is not a State tax indebtedness that has been finally determined after the exhaustion of remedies provided pursuant to the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law, R.S.54:48-1 et seq., or (c) is not a State tax indebtedness that has followed the failure of a person to exercise available remedies, the director shall forward a notice of tax delinquency or tax deficiency, or both, and the person may remit the State tax indebtedness to the director or contest the State tax indebtedness in accordance with the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law, R.S.54:48-1 et seq. The director shall not seek to suspend a license during the time available to contest the notice of tax delinquency or tax deficiency.
c. By written notice to a State agency, the director shall demand the suspension of a license of a person (1) to whom a notice has been provided pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection b. of this section, or (2) to whom a notice of tax delinquency or tax deficiency has been provided pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection b. of this section after the time to contest the notice has expired or after the exhaustion of available remedies. Upon receipt of the director’s notice, a State agency shall suspend the license effective as of a date mutually agreed upon by the director and the State agency. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no person shall have the right to a hearing prior to the imposition of the suspension.
L.2004,c.58,s.5.