The secretary of state shall not issue any certificate of dissolution to any taxpayer or allow any corporate taxpayer to withdraw from the state until:
A. the taxpayer files with the secretary of state a certificate signed by the secretary of taxation and revenue or the secretary of taxation and revenue's delegate stating that as of a certain date the taxpayer is not liable for any tax and containing a statement verified by a responsible official of the corporation to the effect that the taxpayer has not engaged in business after the date above specified. If the taxpayer has so engaged in business, any certificate of dissolution or withdrawal shall be of no effect and all liabilities of the corporation shall continue as if no certificate had been granted;
B. a successor, acceptable to the secretary of taxation and revenue or the secretary's delegate, to any corporation requesting dissolution or withdrawal enters into a binding agreement by provision of which the successor assumes full liability for payment of all taxes due or expected to become due from the corporation and certification thereof is given by the secretary of taxation and revenue or the secretary's delegate; or
C. satisfactory security for payment of the taxes due or expected to become due from the corporation is furnished in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-1-54 NMSA 1978 and certification thereof is given by the secretary of taxation and revenue or the secretary's delegate.
History: 1953 Comp., § 72-13-92, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 248, § 83; 1979, ch. 144, § 65; 1985, ch. 65, § 20; 1993, ch. 30, § 11; 2013, ch. 75, § 8.
Cross references. — For sale of assets of a corporation, see 53-15-1 to 53-15-4 NMSA 1978.
For dissolution of corporations generally, see 53-16-1 to 53-16-24 NMSA 1978.
The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, required taxpayers to file certificates signed by the secretary of taxation and revenue that they are not liable for any tax; in the introductory sentence, deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state"; in Subsection A, after "the taxpayer filed with the", deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state", after "certificate signed by the secretary", added "of taxation and revenue", after "taxation and revenue or the", deleted "secretary's" and added "secretary of taxation and revenue's"; in Subsection B, after "acceptable to the secretary", added "of taxation and revenue" and after "given by the secretary of", added "of taxation and revenue"; and in Subsection C, after "given by the secretary", added "of taxation and revenue".
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "secretary or the secretary's delegate" for "director of the revenue division or his delegate" in four places and made minor stylistic changes.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 19 Am. Jur. 2d Corporations § 2880; 36 Am. Jur. 2d Foreign Corporations § 313.
19 C.J.S. Corporations §§ 811 to 882.
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.