2018 Delaware Code
Title 30 - State Taxes
CHAPTER 5. PROCEDURE, ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Subchapter IV Enforcement
§ 561. Jeopardy assessments.

(a) If the Director finds that the collection of a tax, whether or not the time otherwise prescribed by law for making a return and paying such tax has expired, or the assessment or collection of a deficiency for any year, current or past, will be jeopardized by delay, the Director shall immediately assess such tax or such deficiency and shall mail or issue notice of the finding to the taxpayer together with a demand for immediate payment of such tax or such deficiency declared to be in jeopardy, together with all interest, penalties, additional amounts and additions to the tax provided by law.

(b) In the case of a jeopardy assessment of a tax for a current taxable year or other taxable period, the Director shall determine such tax for the period beginning on the first day of such current taxable year or other taxable period and ending on the date of the Director's finding under subsection (a) of this section as though such period were a taxable year or other taxable period of the taxpayer.

(c) A jeopardy assessment shall be immediately due and payable, and proceedings for the collection of such assessment may be commenced at once, subject to §§ 554 and 556 of this title. The taxpayer, however, may stay the collection of the whole or any amount of such assessment and prevent such assessment from becoming final by filing with the Director, within 10 days after the date of mailing or issuing the notice of jeopardy assessment, a request for reassessment, accompanied by a bond or, in the discretion of the Director, other adequate security in an amount equal to the amount as to which the stay of collection is sought, conditioned upon the payment of the amount (together with interest thereon) the collection of which is stayed. If a request for reassessment, accompanied by a bond or, in the discretion of the Director, other adequate security in the appropriate amount, is not filed within such 10-day period, the assessment shall become final upon the expiration of such 10-day period.

(d) If a request for reassessment, accompanied by a bond or other adequate security, is filed within the 10-day period provided by subsection (c) of this section, the collection of so much of the amount assessed as is covered by the bond or other security shall be stayed, the Director shall reconsider the assessment and, if the taxpayer has so requested in the request for reassessment, the Director shall grant the taxpayer, or the taxpayer's authorized representative, an oral hearing. The Director's determination on the request for reassessment shall become final upon the expiration of 30 days from the date when the Director mails notice of the determination to the taxpayer, unless, within such 30-day period, the taxpayer files with the Tax Appeal Board an application for review of the Director's determination.

(e) In any proceeding relating to the collection of a jeopardy assessment, the finding of the Director under subsection (a) of this section shall for all purposes be presumptive evidence that the collection of the tax or the assessment or collection of the deficiency was in jeopardy.

(f) The Director may abate the jeopardy assessment if the Director finds that jeopardy does not exist.

68 Del. Laws, c. 187, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.