Sec. 19. Any person charging against or deducting from any payment due to any other person any amount being or represented as being a tax levied by this chapter or receiving money or credits as or purporting to be such a tax is a trustee of the amounts so charged, deducted, or received. A trustee who fails to pay any of those amounts to the department when due, with intent to evade payment of the tax, commits a Level 6 felony.
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.278, s.19. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.650; P.L.158-2013, SEC.104.
Structure Indiana Code
Chapter 1. Petroleum Severance Tax
6-8-1-5. "Petroleum", "Natural Gas", "Oil", and "Barrel of Oil" Defined
6-8-1-11. Payment of Tax; Right of Reimbursement
6-8-1-12. Duties of Department
6-8-1-18. Tax Additional to All Other Taxes
6-8-1-19. Amount Collected From Tax; Failure of Collecting Trustee to Pay; Offense
6-8-1-23. Record Keeping Violations; Offenses
6-8-1-24. Evasion of Tax; Offenses