2016 Arkansas Code
Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 7 - Excise Taxes
Subchapter 2 - -- Special Retail Tax
§ 3-7-202. Lien -- Procedure for obtaining

(a) If the taxpayer fails to demand a hearing before the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration within twenty (20) days after an assessment of the tax due the state has been made under this subchapter or, if the taxpayer shall fail to pay the tax assessed by the director after a hearing and an order by the director establishing the tax, as hereinbefore provided, then the director may as soon as practicable thereafter issue to the circuit clerk of any county of the state a certificate certifying that the person therein named is indebted to the state for the tax established by the director to be due.

(b) The circuit clerk shall immediately enter upon the circuit court judgment docket the name of the delinquent taxpayer, the amount certified as being due, a short name of the tax, and the date of the entry upon the judgment docket.

(c) The entry shall have the same force and effect as an entry on the judgment docket of a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the county and shall constitute and be evidence of the state's lien upon the title to any interest in any real property of the taxpayer named in the certificate.

(d) The entry of the certificate as a judgment shall constitute, in addition to the force and effect above described, a lien also upon all personal property of the taxpayer named therein from the time of the entry of the certificate.

(e) The lien shall be in addition to any and all other liens existing in favor of the state to secure the payment of the unpaid tax, penalty, interest, and costs. The lien shall be paramount and superior to all other liens of whatever kind and character attaching to any of the property subsequent to the date of the entry upon judgment docket.