§ 68-220. Waiver or remission of interest or penalties.

A.  The interest or penalty or any portion thereof ordinarily accruing by reason of a taxpayer's failure to file a report or return or failure to file a report or return in the correct form as required by any state tax law or by this Code or to pay a state tax within the statutory period allowed for its payment may be waived or remitted by the Oklahoma Tax Commission or its designee provided the taxpayer's failure to file a report or return or to pay the tax is satisfactorily explained to the Tax Commission or such designee, or provided such failure has resulted from a mistake by the taxpayer of either the law or the facts subjecting him to such tax, or inability to pay such interest or penalty resulting from insolvency.

B.  The waiver or remission of all or any part of any such interest or penalties in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) shall not become effective unless approved by one of the judges of the district court of Oklahoma County after a full hearing thereon.

The application for the approval of such waiver or remission shall be filed in the office of the court clerk of the court at least twenty (20) days prior to the entry of the order of the judge finally approving or disapproving the waiver or remission.  The order so entered shall be a final order of the district court of the county.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 414, § 2, emerg. eff. July 7, 1965.  Amended by Laws 1989, c. 249, § 10, eff. July 1, 1989; Laws 1993, c. 146, § 10; Laws 1997, c. 294, § 9, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2005, c. 362, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.