Business Tax Delinquency Report Now Available
For immediate release: Friday, July 6, 2012
For more information: Jan Talley, Director, or Jane Page, Assistant Director,
Business Tax Division, 605.773.3311
Business Tax Delinquency Report Now Available
PIERRE, S.D. – A report listing entities with business tax delinquencies is now available on the South Dakota Department of Revenue website.
The South Dakota Business Tax Delinquent Report is accessible in the Business Tax area of the Department’s website at http://www.state.sd.us/drr2/businesstax/bustax.htm
This daily report, authorized by the 2012 Legislature with the passage of House Bill 1029, will serve as an additional resource for the Department in its efforts to collect delinquent taxes, according to Business Tax Director Jan Talley.
“South Dakota’s tax revenue is the main source of funding for vital public services, from public safety and transportation to health care and education,” said Talley. “A person who fails to pay the tax owed by law places an extra burden on remaining taxpayers to maintain the level of funding so the availability of these services is not affected.”
“The Revenue Department makes every effort to collect past-due taxes, and this report will be another tool we can use in our collection process,” Talley added.
House Bill 1029 allows the Department to publicly list delinquent people who owe sales tax, use tax, tourism tax, municipal tax, municipal gross receipts tax, contractor’s excise tax, motor vehicle leasing tax, or telecommunications gross receipts tax to the State of South Dakota if a lien has been filed against those people.
The list will display the 100 delinquent taxpayers owing the largest amount of tax, and include the person’s name; the business name, if any; and the amount of total tax, penalties and interest outstanding for each license record.
Written notification is mailed to the last known address on file for any people who qualify to be included on the report 90 days prior to their names being posted on the list.
A delinquency will not be included on the report if a written payment agreement exists between the person and the Department and payments are received without default, or if the tax liability is involved in an administrative hearing, administrative review, judicial review, or an appeal of any of those proceedings.
A listing will be removed from the report within 10 days after the full delinquent debt payment has been processed by the Department of Revenue.
People on the list, or any taxpayer with a delinquent amount owed to the State, can pay the amount due by mailing a check payable to the S.D. State Treasurer. Such checks should be sent to Department of Revenue Remittance Center, P.O. Box 5055, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5055. A business license number should be included on the check, if possible.
Have questions on state tax return filing or how to pay toward a delinquent account? Contact the South Dakota Department of Revenue at bustax@state.sd.us or call (800) 829-9188.
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