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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 8. SALES AND USE TAXES · Article 3. COUNTY SALES AND USE TAXES · Part 1. COUNTY SPECIAL PURPOSE LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX (SPLOST)

48-8-113. Administration and collection of tax.

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  1. A tax levied pursuant to this part shall be exclusively administered and collected by the commissioner for the use and benefit of the county and qualified municipalities within such special district imposing the tax. Such administration and collection shall be accomplished in the same manner and subject to the same applicable provisions, procedures, and penalties provided in Article 1 of this chapter except that the sales and use tax provided in this part shall be applicable to sales of motor fuels as prepaid local tax as that term is defined in Code Section 48-8-2; provided, however, that all moneys collected from each taxpayer by the commissioner shall be applied first to such taxpayer’s liability for taxes owed the state; and provided, further, that the commissioner may rely upon a representation by or in behalf of the county and qualified municipalities within the special district or the Secretary of State that such a tax has been validly imposed, and the commissioner and the commissioner’s agents shall not be liable to any person for collecting any such tax which was not validly imposed. Dealers shall be allowed a percentage of the amount of the tax due and accounted for and shall be reimbursed in the form of a deduction in submitting, reporting, and paying the amount due if such amount is not delinquent at the time of payment. The deduction shall be at the rate and subject to the requirements specified under subsections (b) through (f) of Code Section 48-8-50.

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.

History

Code 1981, § 48-8-113, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 232, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 815, § 3; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2998, § 2; Ga. L. 2004, p. 69, § 12; Ga. L. 2007, p. 309, § 9/HB 219; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 48/SB 46; Ga. L. 2010, p. 662, § 25/HB 1221; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 48/HB 79.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2004, p. 69, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘State and Local Taxation, Financing, and Service Delivery Revision Act of 2004.’” Ga. L. 2004, p. 69, § 23(c), not codified by the General Assembly, provides that this Code section “shall apply with respect to taxes imposed or to be imposed under any resolution or ordinance adopted by a county or municipal governing authority on or after July 1, 2004; and, except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (the amendment to this Code section), 13, 14, and 15 of this Act shall not apply with respect to taxes imposed or to be imposed under resolutions and ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 2004.”

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