Tennessee Code 57-5-204 – Default in payment of state privilege taxes – Cancellation of certificate
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 57-5-204
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
If any such person shall at any time make default in the payment of the state privilege taxes levied under provisions hereof, the commissioner shall send by registered mail, with return receipt requested, written notice and demand for payment of such delinquent tax, showing the amount thereof due and unpaid, to the surety or sureties on the bond, at the address shown thereon or to the last known address, and if the delinquent tax and all interest and penalties legally due thereon shall not be paid within ten (10) days after the mailing of such notice, the commissioner shall cancel the certificate described under § 57-5-102 and proceed against the delinquent under §§ 29-3-112 and 29-3-113 and the commissioner is authorized and empowered, and it shall be the commissioner’s duty, to issue a distress warrant for the collection of all delinquent state privilege taxes due under the provisions hereof, with interest and penalty in the sum of ten percent (10%).