TITLE 48 REVENUE AND TAXATION

Section 7. Income Taxes, 48-7-1 through 48-7-170.

ARTICLE 7 SETOFF DEBT COLLECTION

48-7-160. Purposes.

The purpose of this article is to establish a policy and to provide a system whereby all claimant agencies and courts of this state in conjunction with the department shall cooperate in identifying debtors who owe money to the state through its various claimant agencies or courts and who qualify for refunds from the department. It is also the purpose of this article to establish procedures for setting off against any such refund the sum of any debt owed to the claimant agencies or courts. It is the intent of the General Assembly that this article be liberally construed to effectuate these purposes.

(Code 1933, § 91A-4101, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1555, § 1; Ga. L. 2014, p. 56, § 1/HB 1000.)