Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 2. STATE ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION, AND ENFORCEMENT · Article 2. ADMINISTRATION

48-2-42. Nature of penalties.

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All penalties imposed by law are part of the tax and are to be collected as such. The proceedings to collect the original tax, the tax constituted from penalties imposed, and the interest shall all be conducted in the same manner. Any provision of law for criminal prosecution shall not operate under the tax laws of this state to relieve any taxpayer of any tax, penalty, or interest imposed by law.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 77, § 37; Code 1933, § 91A-237, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.

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