Title 48, Chapter 6, Section 73
( 48-6-73)
Each collecting officer shall make a report to the commissioner by
the tenth day of each month on forms prescribed by the commissioner
of all sums collected and remitted under this article for the
preceding month. The collecting officer shall retain 6 percent of
the tax collected as compensation for said officer's services in
collecting the tax. All such taxes shall be deemed to have been
collected by the collecting officer in said officer's official
capacity. Failure to collect and distribute the tax as provided by
law shall constitute a breach of the official duty and of the
official bond of the collecting officer. In each county in which
the collecting officer is on a salary, the 6 percent commission
allowed by this Code section shall be paid into the county treasury
and shall become county property. The long-term notes secured by
real property upon which this tax is based shall not be placed upon
the property tax digest prepared and maintained by the tax receiver.
It is the intention of the General Assembly that the 6 percent
commission permitted under this article for the collection and
distribution of this tax by the collecting officer shall be the only
compensation permitted to any collecting officer with respect to
this tax. In counties having a population of more than 500,000,
according to the United States decennial census of 1990 or any
future such census, however, the commission allowed under this
article as compensation to the collecting officer shall be 4
percent. |