Sec. 12-464. Penalties for wilful violations or fraudulent intent. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 12-464. Penalties for wilful violations or fraudulent intent. (a) Any person required under this chapter to pay any tax, or required under this chapter or by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of section 12-475 to make a report, keep any records or supply any information, who wilfully fails to pay such tax, make such report, keep such records, or supply such information, at the time required by law or regulations, shall, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 54-193, no person shall be prosecuted for a violation of the provisions of this subsection committed on or after July 1, 1997, except within three years next after such violation has been committed. As used in this section, person includes any officer or employee of a corporation or a member or employee of a partnership under a duty to pay such tax, to make such report, keep such records or supply such information.

      (b) Any person who wilfully delivers or discloses to the commissioner or his authorized agent any list, report, account, statement, or other document, known by him to be fraudulent or false in any material matter, shall in addition to any other penalty provided by law, be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years nor less than one year or both. No person shall be charged with an offense under both subsections (a) and (b) of this section in relation to the same tax period but such person may be charged and prosecuted for both such offenses upon the same information.

      (c) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, for which no other penalty is provided, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.

      (1949 Rev., S. 2561; 1953, S. 1418d; 1958 Rev., S. 14-343; 1959, P.A. 579, S. 10; 1971, P.A. 140, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 82-172, S. 8, 14; P.A. 88-314, S. 34, 54; P.A. 97-203, S. 8, 20.)

      History: 1959 act replaced previous provisions; 1971 act substituted "section 12-456" for repealed Sec. 12-455; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 82-172 eliminated reference to enforcement of payment of tax on motor fuel not paid when due (provisions for collection of said tax, state liens and foreclosure procedure included in section 12-475); P.A. 88-314 deleted the entire section concerning the applicable penalty for making a false or fraudulent return and substituted in lieu thereof penalty provisions pertaining to wilful failure to pay the tax or file a return or report within the time required or wilful delivery of a return or other document known to be false in any material matter, effective July 1, 1988, and applicable to any tax which first becomes due and payable on or after said date, to any return or report due on or after said date, or in the case of any ongoing obligation imposed in accordance with said act, to the tax period next beginning on or after said date; P.A. 97-203 amended Subsec. (a) to extend to three years the time within which persons wilfully failing to file tax returns or pay taxes may be criminally prosecuted, effective July 1, 1997.

      Taxpayer may pay under protest and sue for recovery if he claims tax not due. 115 C. 562.