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&.4A-i5 <br />Sec. 32.513. Collection Penalties - service suppliers or self - <br />collectors. <br />(a) Taxes collected from a service user, or self - collected by a service user <br />subject to Section 32.505 of this Article, are delinquent if not received by the Tax <br />Administrator on or before the due date. Should the due date occur on a <br />weekend or legal holiday, the return must be received by the Tax Administrator <br />on or before the first regular working day following the weekend or legal holiday. <br />A direct deposit, including electronic fund transfers and other similar methods of <br />electronically exchanging monies between financial accounts, made by a service <br />supplier in satisfaction of its obligations under this subsection shall be considered <br />timely if the transfer is initiated on or before the due date, and the transfer settles <br />into the City's account on or before the following business day. <br />(b) If a service supplier, or a service user subject to Section 32.505 of this <br />Article, fails to remit any tax collected, on or before the due date, said person <br />shall pay a penalty for such delinquencies at the rate of fifteen percent (15 %) of <br />the total tax that is delinquent in the remittance, and shall pay interest at the rate <br />of three - quarters of one percent ( % %) per month, or any fraction thereof, on the <br />amount of the tax, exclusive of penalties, from the date on which the remittance <br />first became delinquent, until paid. <br />(c) The Tax Administrator shall have the power to impose additional <br />penalties upon persons required to collect and /or remit taxes pursuant to the <br />provisions of this Article for fraud or gross negligence in reporting or remitting at <br />the rate of fifteen percent (15 %) of the amount of the tax collected and /or <br />required to be remitted, or as recomputed by the Tax Administrator. <br />(d) For collection purposes only, every penalty imposed and such interest <br />that is accrued under the provisions of this section shall become a part of the tax <br />herein required to be paid. <br />Sec. 32.514. Deficiency Determination and Assessment — tax <br />application errors. <br />(a) The Tax Administrator shall make a deficiency determination if he or <br />she determines that any person required to collect or self - collect taxes pursuant <br />to the provisions of this Article has failed to collect and remit the proper amount <br />of tax by improperly or failing to apply the tax to one or more taxable services or <br />charges. <br />(b) The Tax Administrator shall mail a notice of such deficiency <br />determination to the person required to pay or remit the tax, which notice shall <br />refer briefly to the amount of the taxes owed, plus interest at the rate of three- <br />F:Atty /Ord /Ord.186 <br />060403 15 <br />