Sec. 6. (a) Before March 1 of each year, an organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage shall report to the department, under the oath of the president and secretary, the gross premiums received from providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage during the twelve (12) month period ending on December 31 of the preceding calendar year.

     (b) Any organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage shall pay into the treasury of Indiana an amount equal to one and three-tenths percent (1.3%) of gross premiums collected during the previous calendar year. In the computation of the tax, the organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage shall be entitled to deduct any annual Indiana gross premiums returned on account of cancellation or dividends returned to members or expenditures used for the purchase of reinsurance or stop-loss coverage.

     (c) Payments of the nonprofit agricultural organization health coverage tax imposed by this chapter shall be made on a quarterly estimated basis. The amounts of the quarterly installments shall be computed on the basis of the total estimated tax liability for the current calendar year and the installments shall be due and payable on or before April 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15 of the current calendar year.

     (d) Any balance due shall be paid on or before April 15 of the next succeeding calendar year.

     (e) Any overpayment of the estimated tax during the preceding calendar year shall be allowed as a credit against the liability for the first installment of the current calendar year.

     (f) If an organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage fails to make any quarterly payment in an amount equal to at least:

(1) twenty-five percent (25%) of the total tax paid during the preceding calendar year; or

(2) twenty percent (20%) of the actual tax for the current calendar year;

the organization shall be liable, in addition to the amount due, for interest in the amount of one percent (1%) of the amount due and unpaid for each month or part of a month that the amount due, together with interest, remains unpaid. This interest penalty shall be exclusive of and in addition to any other fee, assessment, or charge made by the department.

     (g) The nonprofit agricultural organization health coverage tax under this chapter shall be in lieu of all license fees or privilege or other tax levied or assessed by Indiana or by any municipality, county, or other political subdivision of Indiana. No municipality, county, or other political subdivision of Indiana shall impose any license fee or privilege or other tax upon any nonprofit agricultural organization or any of its agents for the privilege of providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage in the municipality, county, or other political subdivision, except the tax authorized by IC 22-12-6-5. However, the taxes authorized under IC 22-12-6-5 shall be credited against the taxes provided for under this chapter. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the levy and collection of state, county, or municipal taxes upon real and tangible personal property of an organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage or to prohibit the levy of any retaliatory tax, fine, penalty, or fee provided by law. However, all organizations providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage paying taxes in Indiana predicated in part on their income from nonprofit agricultural organization coverage provided shall have the same rights and privileges from further taxation, and shall be given the same credits wherever applicable, as those set out for insurance companies paying only a tax on premiums as set out in IC 27-1-18-2.

     (h) Any organization providing nonprofit agricultural organization coverage that fails or refuses, for more than thirty (30) days, to:

(1) render an accurate account of its receipts as provided in this chapter; and

(2) pay the nonprofit agricultural organization health coverage tax due thereon;

shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each additional day such report and payment shall be delayed, not to exceed a maximum penalty of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). The penalty may be ordered by the commissioner after a hearing under IC 4-21.5-3. The commissioner may revoke all authority of the defaulting nonprofit agricultural organization to provide nonprofit agricultural organization coverage or suspend the nonprofit agricultural organization’s authority during the period of the default, in the discretion of the commissioner.

As added by P.L.154-2020, SEC.38.