2022 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 12 - Taxation
Chapter 229 - Income Tax
Section 12-736. - Penalty for failure to collect, account for and pay over tax or evasion or defeat of tax. Penalty for fraud.

(a) Any person required to collect, truthfully account for and pay over the tax imposed under this chapter who wilfully fails to collect such tax or truthfully account for and pay over such tax or who wilfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat the tax or the payment thereof, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be liable for a penalty equal to the total amount of the tax evaded, or not collected, or not accounted for and paid over, including any penalty or interest attributable to such wilful failure to collect or truthfully account for and pay over such tax or such wilful attempt to evade or defeat such tax. The amount of a penalty for which a person may be personally liable under this section shall be collected in accordance with the provisions of section 12-734.

(b) Any person who with fraudulent intent shall fail to pay, to deduct or to withhold and pay any tax, to make, render, sign or certify any return or to supply any information within the time required by or under this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars, in addition to any other amounts required under this chapter to be imposed, assessed and collected by the commissioner.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 87, 168; P.A. 97-243, S. 44, 67; P.A. 22-117, S. 1.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 87, effective August 22, 1991, and applicable to taxable years of taxpayers commencing on or after January 1, 1991; P.A. 97-243 amended Subsec. (b) to delete reference to declaration of estimated tax, effective June 24, 1997, and applicable to taxable years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; P.A. 22-117 amended Subsec. (a) to add reference to inclusion of penalty or interest attributable to failure to collect, account for and pay over tax or evasion or defeat of tax and add provision re collection of penalty in accordance with Sec. 12-734, effective May 27, 2022.