Utah Code 59-2-309. Property escaping assessment — Duties of assessing authority — Property willfully concealed — Penalties
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(1) Any escaped property may be assessed by the original assessing authority at any time as far back as five years prior to the time of discovery, in which case the assessor shall enter the assessments on the tax rolls and follow the procedures established under Part 13, Collection of Taxes .
Terms Used In Utah Code 59-2-309
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Escaped property: means any property, whether personal, land, or any improvements to the property, that is subject to taxation and is:(12)(a)(i) inadvertently omitted from the tax rolls, assigned to the incorrect parcel, or assessed to the wrong taxpayer by the assessing authority;(12)(a)(ii) undervalued or omitted from the tax rolls because of the failure of the taxpayer to comply with the reporting requirements of this chapter; or(12)(a)(iii) undervalued because of errors made by the assessing authority based upon incomplete or erroneous information furnished by the taxpayer. See Utah Code 59-2-102
- Property: means property that is subject to assessment and taxation according to its value. See Utah Code 59-2-102
(2) Any property found to be willfully concealed, removed, transferred, or misrepresented by its owner or agent in order to evade taxation is subject to a penalty equal to the tax on its value, and neither the penalty nor assessment may be reduced or waived by the assessor, county, county Board of Equalization, or the commission, except pursuant to a procedure for the review and approval of waivers adopted by county ordinance, or by administrative rule adopted in accordance withTitle 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act .