15-70-332. Determination if no return made. - Montana Statutes

     15-70-332. Determination if no return made. (1) If any special fuel user, whether or not the user is licensed as a special fuel user, fails, neglects, or refuses to file a special fuel tax return when due, the department shall on the basis of information available to it determine the tax liability of the special fuel user for the period during which a return was not filed, and to the tax as determined, the department shall add the penalty and interest provided in 15-70-330(1).
     (2) An assessment made by the department pursuant to this section or to 15-70-331 is presumed to be correct, and in any case in which the validity of the assessment is in question, the burden is on the person who challenges the assessment to establish by a fair preponderance of the evidence that it is erroneous or excessive as the case may be.

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 162, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 70, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 52, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 61, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 277, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 83, Ch. 516, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 258, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 377, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 84-1835(g); amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 525, L. 1993.