A. Except as provided in Subsection G of this section, prior to or coincident with requesting records and books of account from a taxpayer pursuant to Section 7-1-11 NMSA 1978, as part of an office or field audit, the department shall provide the taxpayer with written dated notice of the commencement of an audit. The notice shall, at a minimum, state the tax programs and reporting periods to be covered and the date on which the audit is commenced.
B. To any taxpayer to whom the department is required to provide a written notice of the commencement of an audit, the department shall also provide a written notice of the outstanding records or books of account that have been requested but not received. If the taxpayer has provided all records and books of account requested, the notice shall so state. The notice of outstanding records or books of account shall be given no sooner than sixty days, unless the taxpayer provides a written request for early completion of the audit, and no later than one hundred eighty days after the date of the commencement of the audit. The notice of outstanding records or books of account shall be dated and shall provide reasonable descriptions of any records or books of account needed or the information expected to be contained in them and shall give the taxpayer ninety days to comply with Section 7-1-11 NMSA 1978. The notice shall state that if the taxpayer does not properly comply within ninety days of the date of the notice, the department will proceed to issue any assessment of tax due on the basis of information available.
C. A taxpayer may request additional time to comply with the notice of outstanding records and books of account. Such request shall be in writing and shall state the amount of time needed.
D. If the department does not issue an assessment within one hundred eighty days after giving a notice of outstanding records or books of account or within ninety days after the expiration of the additional time requested by the taxpayer to comply, if such request was granted, interest shall be computed in accordance with Paragraph (6) of Subsection A of Section 7-1-67 NMSA 1978.
E. Any taxpayer who was not provided a proper notice of outstanding records or books of account is entitled to computation of interest in accordance with Paragraph (7) of Subsection A of Section 7-1-67 NMSA 1978.
F. Nothing in this section shall prevent the department from requesting from the taxpayer a waiver of the statute of limitations for assessment of tax owed. Nothing in this section shall prevent the department from issuing an assessment of tax owed on the basis of the information available.
G. This section does not apply to investigations of fraud.
History: 1978 Comp., § 7-1-11.2, enacted by Laws 2003, ch. 398, § 7; 2007, ch. 262, § 2.
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, provided an exception to the sixty-day notice of outstanding records if the taxpayer has requested early completion of the audit.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 7-1-2 - Applicability.
Section 7-1-4 - Investigative authority and powers.
Section 7-1-4.1 - New Mexico taxpayer bill of rights created; purpose.
Section 7-1-4.2 - New Mexico taxpayer bill of rights.
Section 7-1-4.3 - New Mexico taxpayer bill of rights; notice to the public.
Section 7-1-4.4 - Notice of potential eligibility required.
Section 7-1-6 - Receipts; disbursements; funds created.
Section 7-1-6.1 - Identification of money in tax administration suspense fund; distribution.
Section 7-1-6.2 - Distribution; small cities assistance fund.
Section 7-1-6.4 - Distribution; municipality from gross receipts tax.
Section 7-1-6.5 - Distribution; small counties assistance fund.
Section 7-1-6.6 - Distribution; game protection fund.
Section 7-1-6.7 - Distributions; state aviation fund.
Section 7-1-6.8 - Distribution; motorboat fuel tax fund.
Section 7-1-6.9 - Distribution of gasoline taxes to municipalities and counties.
Section 7-1-6.10 - Distributions; state road fund.
Section 7-1-6.11 - Distributions of cigarette taxes.
Section 7-1-6.15 - Adjustments of distributions or transfers to municipalities or counties.
Section 7-1-6.16 - County equalization distribution.
Section 7-1-6.18 - Distribution; veterans' state cemetery fund.
Section 7-1-6.19 - Distribution; county government road fund created.
Section 7-1-6.20 - Identification of money in extraction taxes suspense fund; distribution.
Section 7-1-6.21 - Distribution to oil and gas reclamation fund.
Section 7-1-6.23 - Distribution to severance tax bonding fund.
Section 7-1-6.24 - Distribution; substance abuse education fund.
Section 7-1-6.26 - County government road fund; distribution.
Section 7-1-6.27 - Distribution; municipal roads.
Section 7-1-6.28 - Distribution; municipal arterial program of local governments road fund.
Section 7-1-6.29 - Money in workers' compensation collections suspense fund; distribution.
Section 7-1-6.30 - Distribution; retiree health care fund.
Section 7-1-6.31 - Distributions; enhanced 911 fund; network and database surcharge fund.
Section 7-1-6.32 - Distribution; solid waste assessment fee.
Section 7-1-6.33 - Distribution to county-supported medicaid fund.
Section 7-1-6.34 - Distribution; conservation planting revolving fund.
Section 7-1-6.35 - Distribution; contributions to state political party.
Section 7-1-6.36 - Distribution; interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax.
Section 7-1-6.38 - Distribution; governmental gross receipts tax.
Section 7-1-6.39 - Distribution of special fuel excise tax to local governments road fund.
Section 7-1-6.41 - Administrative fee imposed; appropriation.
Section 7-1-6.42 - Distribution; state building bonding fund; gross receipts tax.
Section 7-1-6.44 - Distribution; gasoline tax sharing agreement.
Section 7-1-6.49 - Distribution; contributions to the state parks division.
Section 7-1-6.50 - Distribution; contributions for national guard member and family assistance.
Section 7-1-6.51 - Distribution; municipal event center surcharge.
Section 7-1-6.54 - Distributions; tax increment development districts.
Section 7-1-6.58 - Distribution; public election fund.
Section 7-1-6.59 - Distribution; Vietnam veterans memorial operation, maintenance and improvement.
Section 7-1-6.60 - Distribution; county business retention gross receipts tax.
Section 7-1-6.62 - Distribution; premium tax.
Section 7-1-6.66 - Distribution; offset for food and beverage establishments deduction.
Section 7-1-6.67 - Distribution; Local Economic Development Act Fund.
Section 7-1-6.68 - Distribution; cannabis excise tax; municipalities and counties.
Section 7-1-8 - Confidentiality of returns and other information.
Section 7-1-8.2 - Information required to be revealed.
Section 7-1-8.3 - Information that may be revealed to public.
Section 7-1-8.5 - Information that may be revealed to national governments or their agencies.
Section 7-1-8.6 - Information that may be revealed to certain tribal governments.
Section 7-1-8.8 - Information that may be revealed to other state agencies.
Section 7-1-8.9 - Information that may be revealed to local governments and their agencies.
Section 7-1-8.10 - Information that may be revealed to private persons other than the taxpayer.
Section 7-1-8.11 - Information that may be revealed to a water and sanitation district.
Section 7-1-9 - Address of notices and payments; timely mailing constitutes timely filing or making.
Section 7-1-11.1 - Managed audits.
Section 7-1-11.2 - Required audit notices.
Section 7-1-12 - Identification of taxpayers.
Section 7-1-13 - Taxpayer returns; payment of taxes; extension of time.
Section 7-1-13.1 - Method of payment of certain taxes due.
Section 7-1-13.4 - Electronic payments; reversals.
Section 7-1-15 - Secretary may set tax reporting and payment intervals.
Section 7-1-15.1 - Secretary may permit or require rounding.
Section 7-1-15.2 - Agreements; collection of compensating tax.
Section 7-1-16 - Delinquent taxpayer.
Section 7-1-17 - Assessment of tax; presumption of correctness.
Section 7-1-17.1 - Tax liability; spouse or former spouse.
Section 7-1-18 - Limitation on assessment by department.
Section 7-1-19 - Limitation of actions.
Section 7-1-20 - Compromise of taxes; closing agreements.
Section 7-1-21 - Installment payments of taxes; installment agreements.
Section 7-1-21.1 - Special agreements; alternative gross receipts taxpayer.
Section 7-1-22 - Exhaustion of administrative remedies.
Section 7-1-23 - Disputing liabilities; election of remedies.
Section 7-1-24 - Disputing liabilities; administrative protest.
Section 7-1-25 - Appeals from hearing officer's decision and order.
Section 7-1-26 - Disputing liabilities; claim for credit, rebate or refund.
Section 7-1-27 - Conclusiveness of court order on liability for payment of tax.
Section 7-1-28 - Authority for abatements of assessments of tax.
Section 7-1-29 - Authority to make refunds or credits.
Section 7-1-29.1 - Awarding of costs and fees.
Section 7-1-29.2 - Credit claims.
Section 7-1-30 - Collection of penalties and interest.
Section 7-1-31 - Seizure of property by levy for collection of taxes.
Section 7-1-32 - Contents of warrant of levy.
Section 7-1-33 - Successive seizures.
Section 7-1-34 - Surrender of property subject to levy; penalty.
Section 7-1-35 - Stay of levy.
Section 7-1-36 - Property exempt from levy.
Section 7-1-37 - Assessment as lien.
Section 7-1-38 - Notice of lien.
Section 7-1-39 - Release or extinguishment of lien; limitation on actions to enforce lien.
Section 7-1-40 - Foreclosure of lien.
Section 7-1-41 - Notice of seizure.
Section 7-1-42 - Notice of sale.
Section 7-1-43 - Sale of indivisible property.
Section 7-1-44 - Requirements of sale.
Section 7-1-45 - Manner of sale or conversion to money.
Section 7-1-46 - Minimum prices.
Section 7-1-47 - Redemption before sale.
Section 7-1-48 - Documents of title.
Section 7-1-49 - Legal effect of certificate of sale.
Section 7-1-50 - Legal effect of deed to real property.
Section 7-1-51 - Proceeds of levy and sale.
Section 7-1-52 - Release of levy.
Section 7-1-53 - Enjoining delinquent taxpayer from continuing in business.
Section 7-1-54 - Security for payment of tax.
Section 7-1-55 - Contractor's bond for gross receipts; tax; penalty.
Section 7-1-56 - Sale of or proceedings against security.
Section 7-1-57 - Surety bonds.
Section 7-1-58 - Permanence of tax debt; civil actions to collect tax.
Section 7-1-59 - Jeopardy assessments.
Section 7-1-60 - Estoppel against state.
Section 7-1-61 - Duty of successor in business.
Section 7-1-62 - Duty of secretary; release of successor.
Section 7-1-63 - Assessment of tax due; application of payment.
Section 7-1-65 - Reciprocal enforcement of tax judgments.
Section 7-1-66 - Immunity of property of Indian nations, tribes or pueblos and of the United States.
Section 7-1-67 - Interest on deficiencies.
Section 7-1-68 - Interest on overpayments.
Section 7-1-69 - Civil penalty for failure to pay tax or file a return.
Section 7-1-69.1 - Civil penalty for failure to file an information return.
Section 7-1-69.2 - Civil penalty for failure to correctly file certain deductions.
Section 7-1-70 - Civil penalty for bad checks.
Section 7-1-71 - Civil penalty for failure to collect and pay over tax.
Section 7-1-71.1 - Tax return preparers; requirements; penalties.
Section 7-1-71.3 - Willful failure to collect and pay over taxes.
Section 7-1-71.4 - Tax return preparer; electronic filing requirement; penalty.
Section 7-1-72 - Attempts to evade or defeat tax.
Section 7-1-72.1 - Civil penalty; willful attempt to cause evasion of another's tax.
Section 7-1-75 - Assault and battery of a department employee.
Section 7-1-76 - Revealing information concerning taxpayers.
Section 7-1-78 - Burden of proof in fraud cases.
Section 7-1-79 - Enforcement officials.
Section 7-1-80 - Dissolution or withdrawal of corporation.
Section 7-1-82 - Transfer, assignment, sale, lease or renewal of liquor license.
Section 7-1-83 - Business and employee status during disaster response period.