2020 Georgia Code
Title 48 - Revenue and Taxation
Chapter 8 - Sales and Use Taxes
Article 1 - State Sales and Use Tax
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 48-8-9. Failure by Dealer to Furnish Return Under Article; Penalty
- It shall be unlawful for any dealer subject to this article to knowingly and willfully fail or refuse to furnish any return required to be made by this article or to fail or refuse to furnish a supplemental return or other data required by the commissioner.
- Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Upon the second or subsequent conviction of a person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section, the person shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
(Ga. L. 1951, p. 360, § 18; Code 1933, § 91A-9940, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 181, § 3/HB 1506.)
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2006, p. 181, § 5/HB 1506, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall not apply to any offense committed before July 1, 2006. Any such offense shall be punishable as provided by the statute in effect at the time the offense was committed."
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Fingerprinting required for violators.
- Those charged with offenses under O.C.G.A. § 48-8-9 are to be fingerprinted. 2007 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 2007-1.
Percentage of local option sales and use tax to absent municipality.
- Absent municipality cannot be forced under O.C.G.A. § 48-8-89 to accept a smaller percentage of the local option sales and use tax proceeds distributed to all qualified municipalities in the county than the percentage the absent municipality's population is of the total population of all such qualified municipalities, regardless of whether that distribution is pursuant to a negotiated certificate or is based instead on an order by a superior court judge when the necessary parties are unable to agree. 2012 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U12-1.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 67B Am. Jur. 2d, Sales and Use Taxes, § 120.
ALR.- Retailer's failure to pay to government sales or use tax funds as constituting larceny or embezzlement, 8 A.L.R.4th 1068.
