Adopted by House 3-8-08
HB3201 HFAT WEBSTER 3-8 #1

Delegate Webster moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:
Eng. House Bill No. 3201--A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto two new sections, designated §11-10-5z and §11-10-7d; to amend and reenact §11-12-5 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-15-9j; to amend and reenact §11-15-16 of said code; and to amend and reenact §11-21-74 of said code, all relating to the procedure, assessment, collection, efficient administration and technical advancements for certain taxes; requiring electronic filing of tax returns when the taxpayer meets a certain threshold amount of taxes due; authorizing combined tax assessments; authorizing promulgation of rules to determine the application of partial payments of taxes; authorizing the limitation on assessments to apply separately to each tax in a combined assessment; authorizing the recordation of one lien for all taxes in a combined assessment; prohibiting filing incomplete business registration certificate; specifying the time period for which the business registration certificate is granted; specifying authority of the Tax Commissioner to suspend or cancel certificate; eliminating the periodic biennial business registration certificate renewal requirement; specifying a penalty applied upon issuance, renewal or reinstatement of the business registration certificate pursuant to involuntary cancellation, revocation or suspension of the business registration certificate; prohibiting filing incomplete returns for consumers sales and service tax and use tax; authorizing the tax commissioner to refuse, revoke, suspend or refuse to renew a business registration certificate for a business that is the alter ego, nominee or instrumentality of a business in certain situations; and defining alter ego ; allowing assertion of the consumers sales and use tax exemptions authorized under section nine-i, article fifteen, chapter eleven of the Code of West Virginia to be asserted by use of a direct pay permit; requiring the Tax Commissioner to design a combined reporting form; requiring taxpayers to use the form specified by the Tax Commissioner; authorizing the Tax Commissioner to promulgate necessary rules; and prohibiting filing incomplete filing of withholding tax returns.

Adopted
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