If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel shall fail to make monthly reports or shall fail to pay the tax imposed under authority of this part, the tax shall be deemed delinquent within the meaning of this part and there shall be added to the amount of the tax a penalty of 25 percent, provided, if in the opinion of the County Commission of Franklin County a good and sufficient cause or reason is shown for such delinquency, the penalty may be remitted. The Franklin County Commission shall be authorized and empowered to make returns for delinquent taxpayers upon such information as it may reasonably obtain and add to that the penalty as prescribed by this part. If any person shall be delinquent in the payment of any tax imposed pursuant to this part, the County Commission of Franklin County shall issue execution for the collection of the same, directed to the Franklin County Sheriff, who shall proceed to collect the same in the manner now provided by law for the collection of delinquent taxes by the county tax collector and make return of such execution to the Franklin County Commission. The tax herein authorized to be levied and the penalties herein provided for shall be held as a debt payable to Franklin County by the person against whom the same shall have been imposed or against whom the penalties shall have accrued, and all such taxes and penalties shall be a lien upon the property in Franklin County and elsewhere in this state of the person against whom the tax shall have been imposed and the penalties shall have accrued.
Structure Code of Alabama
Section 45-30-241 - Definitions.
Section 45-30-241.01 - Levy and Payment of Tax.
Section 45-30-241.02 - Statement of Sales and Withdrawals.
Section 45-30-241.03 - Recordkeeping.
Section 45-30-241.04 - Reports to the Commission.
Section 45-30-241.05 - Enforcement.
Section 45-30-241.06 - Delinquency of Payment of Tax.
Section 45-30-241.07 - Actual Payment Deemed a Credit Against Amount Due.
Section 45-30-241.08 - Violations.