Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 5320 – Transferees
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1. General. The liability, at law or in equity, of a transferee of property of a taxpayer for any tax, addition to tax, penalty or interest due the assessor under this Part shall be assessed, paid and collected in the same manner and subject to the same provisions and limitations as in the case of the tax to which the liability relates, except as hereinafter provided in this section. The term transferee includes, but is not limited to, donee, heir, legatee, devisee and distributee.
[P&SL 1969, c. 154, §F (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 5320
- Donee: The recipient of a gift.
- in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Taxpayer: means any person required to file a return under this Title or to pay, withhold and pay over or collect and pay over any tax imposed by this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Period of limitation. In the case of the liability of an initial transferee, the period of limitation for assessment of any liability is within one year after the expiration of period of limitation against the transferor. In the case of the liability of a transferee of a transferee, within one year after the expiration of the period of limitation against the preceding transferee, but not more than 3 years after the expiration of the period of limitation for assessment against the original transferor; except that if before the expiration of the period of limitation for the assessment of the liability of the transferee, a proceeding for the collection of the liability has been begun against the initial transferor or the last preceding transferee, respectively, then the period of limitation for assessment of the liability of the transferee shall expire one year after the proceeding is terminated.
[P&SL 1969, c. 154, §F (NEW).]
3. Extension by agreement. If before the expiration of the time provided in this section for the assessment of the liability, the assessor and the transferee have both consented in writing to its assessment after such time, the liability may be assessed at any time prior to the expiration of the period agreed upon or an extension thereof. For the purpose of determining the period of limitation on credit or refund to the transferee of overpayments of tax made by such transferee of overpayments of tax made by the transferor of which the transferee is legally entitled to credit or refund, such agreement and any extension thereof shall be deemed an agreement or extension referred to in section 5278, subsection 3. If the agreement is executed after the expiration of the period of limitation for assessment against the taxpayer with reference to whom the liability of such transferee arises, then in applying the limitations under section 5278, subsection 2 on the amount of the credit or refund, the periods specified in section 5278, subsection 1 shall be increased by the period from the date of such expiration to the date of the agreement.
[PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §248 (AMD).]
4. Transferor deceased. If any person is deceased, the period of limitation for assessment against such person shall be the period that would be in effect had death not occurred.
[P&SL 1969, c. 154, §F (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
P&SL 1969, c. 154, §F1 (NEW). PL 1979, c. 541, §A248 (AMD).