§ 77-1783.01. Corporate taxes; corporate officer or employee; personal liability; collection procedure; limitation.
AI-assisted research summary: Certain corporate tax officers or employees can become personally liable for unpaid corporate taxes if they willfully fail to have the corporation act, and the Tax Commissioner must follow specific notice, hearing, and timing rules.
(1) Any officer or employee with the duty to collect, account for, or pay over any taxes imposed upon a corporation or with the authority to decide whether the corporation will pay taxes imposed upon a corporation shall be personally liable for the payment of such taxes in the event of willful failure on his or her part to have a corporation perform such act. Such taxes shall be collected in the same manner as provided under the Uniform State Tax Lien Registration and Enforcement Act. (2) Within sixty days after the day on which the notice and demand are made for the payment of such taxes, any officer or employee seeking to challenge the Tax Commissioner's determination as to his or her personal liability for the corporation's unpaid taxes may petition for a redetermination. The petition may include a request for the redetermination of the personal liability of the corporate officer or employee, the redetermination of the amount of the corporation's unpaid taxes, or both. If a petition for redetermination is not filed within the sixty-day period, the determination becomes final at the expiration of the period. (3) If the requirements prescribed in subsection (2) of this section are satisfied, the Tax Commissioner shall abate collection proceedings and shall grant the officer or employee an oral hearing and give him or her ten days' notice of the time and place of such hearing. The Tax Commissioner may continue the hearing from time to time as necessary. (4) Any notice required under this section shall be served personally or by mail in the manner provided in section 77-27,135. (5) If the Tax Commissioner determines that further delay in the collection of such taxes from the officer or employee will jeopardize future collection proceedings, nothing in this section shall prevent the immediate collection of such taxes. (6) No notice or demand for payment may be issued against any officer or employee with the duty to collect, account for, or pay over any taxes imposed upon a corporation or with the authority to decide whether the corporation will pay taxes imposed upon a corporation more than three years after the final determination of the corporation's liability or more than one year after the closure or dismissal of a bankruptcy case in which the corporation appeared as the debtor or debtor in possession if the three-year period to issue a notice or demand for payment had not expired prior to the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, whichever date is later. (7) For purposes of this section: (a) Corporation shall mean any corporation and any other entity that is taxed as a corporation under the Internal Revenue Code; (b) Taxes shall mean all taxes and additions to taxes including interest and penalties imposed under the revenue laws of this state which are administered by the Tax Commissioner; and (c) Willful failure shall mean that failure which was the result of an intentional, conscious, and voluntary action. History: Laws 1996, LB 1041, § 5; Laws 2008, LB914, § 6; Laws 2009, LB165, § 2; Laws 2011, LB210, § 6.