1. The tax levied under this division is due and payable in quarterly installments on or before the last day of the month following each quarterly period except as otherwise provided in this subsection. Every retailer who collects more than four thousand dollars in retail sales tax in a semimonthly period shall deposit with the department or in a depository authorized by law and designated by the director, the amount collected or an amount equal to not less than one-sixth of the tax collected and paid to the department during the preceding quarter, with a deposit form for the semimonthly period as prescribed by the director. The first semimonthly deposit form is for the period from the first of the month through the fifteenth of the month and is due on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month. The second semimonthly deposit form is for the period from the sixteenth through the end of the month and is due on or before the tenth day of the month following the month of collection. A deposit is not required for the last semimonthly period of the calendar quarter. The total quarterly amount, less the amount deposited for the five previous semimonthly periods, is due with the quarterly report on the last day of the month following the month of collection. A retailer who collects more than five hundred dollars in retail sales taxes in one month and not more than four thousand dollars in retail sales taxes in a semimonthly period shall deposit with the department or in a depository authorized by law and designated by the director, the amount collected or an amount equal to not less than one-third of the tax collected and paid to the department during the preceding quarter, with a deposit form for the month as prescribed by the director. The deposit form is due on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month of collection, except a deposit is not required for the third month of the calendar quarter and the total quarterly amount, less the amounts deposited for the first two months of the quarter, is due with the quarterly report on the last day of the month following the month of collection. Every retailer who collects more than fifty dollars and not more than five hundred dollars in retail sales tax in one month shall deposit with the department or in a depository authorized by law and designated by the director, the amount collected, or an amount equal to not less than one-third of the tax collected and paid to the department during the last preceding quarter, with a deposit form for the month as prescribed by the director. The deposit form is due on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month of collection, except a deposit is not required for the third month of the calendar quarter and the total quarterly amount, less the amounts deposited for the first two months of the quarter, is due with the quarterly report on the last day of the month following the month of collection. The monthly remittance procedure is optional for any sales tax permit holder whose average monthly collection of tax amounts to more than twenty-five dollars and less than fifty dollars. If the exact amounts of the taxes due or an amount equal to not less than one-third or one-sixth, as applicable, of the tax collected and paid to the department during the last preceding quarter on the deposit form are not ascertainable by the retailer, or would work undue hardship in the computation of the taxes due by the retailer, the director may provide by rules alternative procedures for estimating the amounts (but not the dates) due by the retailers. The forms prescribed by the director shall be referred to as "retailers semimonthly tax deposit" or "retailers monthly tax deposit". Deposit forms shall be signed by the retailer or the retailer's duly authorized agent, and shall be duly certified by the retailer or agent to be correct. The director may authorize incorporated banks and trust companies or other depositories authorized by law which are depositories or financial agents of the United States, or of this state, to receive any tax imposed under this chapter, in the manner, at the times and under the conditions the director prescribes. The director shall prescribe the manner, times, and conditions under which the receipt of the tax by those depositories is to be treated as payment of the tax to the department.
2. Every permit holder at the time of making the return required hereunder, shall compute and pay to the department the tax due for the preceding period.
3. The director may, when necessary and advisable in order to secure the collection of the tax levied under this division, require any person subject to such tax to file with the director a bond, issued by a surety company authorized to transact business in this state and approved by the insurance commissioner as to solvency and responsibility, in such amount as the director may fix, to secure the payment of any tax or penalties due or which may become due from such person. In lieu of such bond, securities approved by the director, in such amount as the director may prescribe, may be deposited with the department, which securities shall be kept in the custody of the department and may be sold by the director at public or private sale, without notice to the depositor thereof, if it becomes necessary so to do in order to recover any tax or penalties due. Upon any such sale, the surplus, if any, above the amounts due under this division shall be returned to the person who deposited the securities.
4. The tax by this division imposed upon those sales of motor vehicle fuel which are subject to tax and refund under chapter 452A shall be collected by the state treasurer by way of deduction from refunds otherwise allowable under said chapter. The amount of such deductions the treasurer shall transfer from the motor vehicle fuel fund to the special tax fund.
5. The provisions of subsection 1, according to the context, shall apply to persons having receipts from rendering, furnishing, or performing services enumerated in section 422.43.
6. a. If a purchaser fails to pay tax imposed by this division to the retailer required to collect the tax, then in addition to all of the rights, obligations, and remedies provided, the tax is payable by the purchaser directly to the department, and sections 422.50, 422.51, 422.52, 422.54, 422.55, 422.56, 422.57, 422.58, and 422.59 apply to the purchaser. For failure, the retailer and purchaser are liable, unless the circumstances described in section 421.60, subsection 2, paragraph "m", or section 422.47, subsection 3, paragraph "b" or "e", or subsection 4, paragraph "b" or "d", are applicable.
b. If any retailer subject to this division sells the retailer's business or stock of goods or quits the business, the retailer shall prepare a final return and pay all tax due within the time required by law. The immediate successor to the retailer, if any, shall withhold sufficient of the purchase price, in money or money's worth, to pay the amount of delinquent tax, interest or penalty due and unpaid. If the immediate successor of the business or stock of goods intentionally fails to withhold the amount due from the purchase price as provided in this paragraph, the immediate successor is personally liable for the payment of the delinquent taxes, interest and penalty accrued and unpaid on account of the operation of the business by the immediate former retailer, except when the purchase is made in good faith as provided in section 421.28. However, a person foreclosing on a valid security interest or retaking possession of premises under a valid lease is not an "immediate successor" for purposes of this paragraph. The department may waive the liability of the immediate successor under this paragraph if the immediate successor exercised good faith in establishing the amount of the previous liability.
c. A person sponsoring a flea market, or a craft, antique, coin, or stamp show or similar event shall obtain from every retailer selling tangible personal property or taxable services at the event proof that the retailer possesses a valid sales tax permit or secure from the retailer a statement, taken in good faith, that property or services offered for sale are not subject to sales tax. Failure to do so renders a sponsor of the event liable for payment of any sales tax, interest and penalty due and owing from any retailer selling property or services at the event. Sections 422.50, 422.51, 422.52, 422.54, 422.55, 422.56, 422.57, 422.58, and 422.59 apply to the sponsors. For purposes of this paragraph a person sponsoring a flea market, or a craft, antique, coin or stamp show or similar event does not include an organization which sponsors an event less than three times a year or a state, county or district agricultural fair.
7. The tax on gross receipts from the sale or rental of tangible personal property under a consumer rental purchase agreement as defined in section 537.3604, subsection 8, is payable in the tax period of receipt.
8. If an amount of tax represented by a retailer to a consumer or user as constituting tax due is computed upon gross receipts that are not taxable or the amount represented is in excess of the actual taxable amount and the amount represented is actually paid by the consumer or user to the retailer, the excess amount of tax paid shall be returned to the consumer or user upon notification to the retailer by the department or by the consumer or user that an excess payment exists. If the retailer fails to make a return, the amount which the consumer or user has paid to the retailer shall be remitted by the retailer to the department.
[C35, § 6943-f47; C39, § 6943.083; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 422.52; 82 Acts, ch 1022, § 4, 9, ch 1205, § 2, 3]
86 Acts, ch 1007, § 30; 87 Acts, ch 196, § 4; 89 Acts, ch 232, §2; 89 Acts, ch 251, § 25; 91 Acts, ch 260, §1230; 99 Acts, ch 151, § 23, 89; 2000 Acts, ch 1189, §30, 34
Referred to in § 421.26, 421.28, 422.47, 422.51, 422.53, 422A.1, 422B.9, 422C.4, 452A.66, 455B.455
Personal liability of officers and partners; see § 421.26
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