Sec. 12-594. Interest added to deficiency assessments. Tax due as a lien on property of the company. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 12-594. Interest added to deficiency assessments. Tax due as a lien on property of the company. (a) To any taxes which are assessed under section 12-593, there shall be added interest at the rate of one per cent per month or fraction thereof which elapses from the date when the original tax became due and payable. The amount of such tax and any penalty or interest in respect to such tax, due and unpaid, may be collected under the provisions of section 12-35. The warrant therein provided for shall be signed by the Commissioner of Revenue Services or his authorized agent. The amount of any such tax, penalty and interest shall be a lien, from the last day of the month next preceding the due date of such tax until discharged by payment, against all real estate of the company within the state and a certificate of such lien signed by said commissioner may be filed for record in the office of the clerk of any town in which such real estate is situated and such lien shall take precedence over any other encumbrance, provided no such lien shall be effective as against any bona fide purchaser or qualified encumbrancer of any interest in any such property. When any tax with respect to which a lien has been recorded under the provisions of this section has been satisfied, said commissioner, upon request of any interested party, shall issue a certificate discharging such lien, which certificate shall be recorded in the same office in which the lien was recorded. Any action for the foreclosure of such lien shall be brought by the Attorney General in the name of the state in the superior court for the judicial district in which such property subject to such lien is situated, or, if such property is located in two or more judicial districts, in the superior court for any one such judicial district and the court may limit the time for redemption or order the sale of such property or pass such other or further decree as it judges equitable.

      (b) The tax imposed under section 12-587 shall be payable to the Commissioner of Revenue Services. All funds received by said commissioner in accordance with said tax shall be recorded with the Comptroller and shall be deposited daily with the State Treasurer.

      (P.A. 80-71, S. 8, 30; P.A. 81-411, S. 41, 42; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-4, S. 6, 32; P.A. 82-325, S. 3, 7; P.A. 85-501, S. 7; P.A. 88-314, S. 52, 54; P.A. 95-26, S. 31, 52.)

      History: P.A. 80-71 effective July 1, 1980, and applicable to calendar quarters commencing on or after that date; P.A. 81-411 increased interest on taxes not paid when due from 1% to 1.25% per month, effective July 1, 1981, and applicable to taxes becoming due on or after that date; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-4 raised interest rate in Subsec. (a) from 1.25% to 1.66% per month, effective February 1, 1982, and applicable to taxes payable to state which first become due on or after that date; P.A. 82-325 revised effective date of Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-4 but without affecting this section; P.A. 85-501 provided that lien shall be effective from the last day of the month next preceding the due date of the tax rather than from due date itself and that such lien shall not be effective against a qualified encumbrancer as defined in Sec. 12-35b, deleting reference to purchasers or encumbrancers to whom property is transferred between due date of tax and date of recording lien; P.A. 88-314 amended Subsec. (a) so that the provisions therein are not applicable to the tax due in accordance with Sec. 12-587 but are applicable to deficiency assessments under Sec. 12-593, 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. 95-26 amended Subsec. (a) to lower interest rate from 1.66% to 1%, effective July 1, 1995, and applicable to taxes due and owing on or after July 1, 1995, whether or not those taxes first became due before said date.