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<br />trator or other person charged with the care of his/her property. and this e <br />duty extends to any unfiled return prior to decedent's death. The tax shall <br />be levied upon and collected from his/her estate. A final return of a dece- <br />dent shall be due when it would have been due if the decedent had not died. <br />3.626 Time and Place for Filing Returns and Paying Tax. <br /> (1) The income tax return required by this Act shall be filed <br />with the department on or before the 15th day of the fourth month following <br />the close of the taxpayer's taxable year, except that the final return of a <br />decedent shall be filed at any time following the decedent's death. to and <br />including the fifteenth day of the fourth month after expiration of the <br />decedent's regular tax year. An individual required to make and file a re- <br />turn under this Act, without assessment, notice or demand, shall pay any <br />tax due thereon to the department on or before the date fixed for filing <br />such return (determined without regard to any extension of time for filing <br />the return). <br /> (2) The tax may be paid with uncertified check during such time <br />and under such regulations as the department shall prescribe, but if a check <br />so received is not paid by the bank on which it is drawn the taxpayer by <br />whom such check is tendered remains liable for the payment of the tax and, <br />for all legal penalties the same as if ~he check had not been tendered. <br /> (3) A return filed before the last day prescribed by law for the <br />filing thereof ~s considered as filed on the last day. ORS 305.820 applies <br />to returns filed by mail and to due dates that fall on a Saturday, Sunday <br />or legal holiday. e <br />3.628 Effect of Failure to File Return; Penalty Sum; Interest. <br /> (1) If a taxpayer: <br /> (a) fails to file a return of income at the time required by <br /> or under this Act, or <br /> (b) fails to pay the tax at the time the tax becomes due, <br />unless it is shown that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not due <br />to willful neglect, there shall be added to the amount of tax required to be <br />shown as tax on the return a penalty of five percent of the amount of such <br />tax if the failure is not for more than one month, with an additional five <br />percent for each additional month or fraction thereof during which failure <br />continues, not exceeding 25 percent of the aggregate. In addition, the tax- <br />payer shall be subject to the penalty described in section 3.998(2). <br /> (2) Interest shall accrue and be collected on the unpaid tax at <br />the rate of eighteen percent per annum or at the adjusted interest rate <br />determined from time to time by the director pursuant to ORS Chapter 305, <br />whichever shall be greater. <br /> (3) For the purposes of section 3.628(1), the amount of tax re- <br />quired to be shown on the return shall be reduced by the amount of any part <br />of the tax that is paid on or before the date prescribed for payment of the <br />tax and by the amount of any credit against the tax which may be properly <br />claimed upon the return. <br />3.630 Adjustment of Returns. Whenever for any reason the income tax e <br /> liability of any taxpayer to the State of Oregon for any particular <br />tax year has been changed and the change would. if originally applied on the <br />Ordinance - 7 <br />