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The 2025 Florida Statutes
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F.S. 213.29213.29 Failure to collect and pay over tax or attempt to evade or defeat tax.—Any person who is required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over any tax enumerated in chapter 201, chapter 206, or chapter 212 and who willfully fails to collect such tax or truthfully account for and pay over such tax or willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat such tax or the payment thereof; or any officer or director of a corporation who has administrative control over the collection and payment of such tax and who willfully directs any employee of the corporation to fail to collect or pay over, evade, defeat, or truthfully account for such tax shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be liable to a penalty equal to twice the total amount of the tax evaded or not accounted for or paid over. The filing of a protest based upon doubt as to liability or collection of a tax shall not be determined to be an attempt to evade tax under this section. The penalty imposed hereunder shall be in addition to any other penalty imposed or that should have been imposed under the revenue laws of this state, but shall be abated to the extent that the tax is paid. Any penalty may be compromised by the executive director of the Department of Revenue as set forth in s. 213.21. An assessment of penalty made pursuant to this section shall be deemed prima facie correct in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding brought to collect this penalty.History.—s. 46, ch. 85-342; s. 55, ch. 87-224; s. 104, ch. 90-136; s. 15, ch. 90-351; s. 21, ch. 92-320; s. 123, ch. 95-417.
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:
Cases Citing Statute 213.29
Total Results: 3
706 F. Supp. 2d 1227, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40900, 2010 WL 1539813
District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Apr 19, 2010 | Docket: 1158412
Cited 80 times | Published
of more than $455.00 per week. See 29 U.S.C. § 213; 29 C.F.R. § 541.600 (2010). The term "computation
706 F. Supp. 2d 1227
District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Apr 19, 2010 | Docket: 2404603
Cited 7 times | Published
of more than $455.00 per week. See 29 U.S.C. § 213; 29 C.F.R. § 541.600 (2010). The term "computation
703 So. 2d 523, 1997 WL 791693
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 30, 1997 | Docket: 1349330
Cited 4 times | Published
A. Mowrey. On August 26, 1987, pursuant to section 213.29, Florida Statutes, the Department issued Notices
