Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 68-2376
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False return - Failure to return - Prosecution - Penalty
Official statutory text
A. Any person, natural or corporate, or any officer or agent of
any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state or evade
the payment of any income tax, shall fail to file a state income tax
return when such person is required to do so by the statutes of
Oklahoma, and within the time in which such returns are required to
be filed, or within a time extension if obtained from the Tax
Commission shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a felony and shall
be punished as provided for in Section 240.1 of this title.
B. Any person, natural or corporate, or any officer or agent of
any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state, or evade
the payment of any income tax, files a state income tax return which
is false in any material items or particular, shall be guilty, upon
conviction, of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished as
provided for in subsection A of Section 241 of this title.
C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the
state or any agency thereof from collecting any fees or penalties as
provided by law. Any corporate violator may be so fined.
D. Offenses defined in this section shall be reported to the
appropriate district attorney of this state by the Oklahoma Tax
Commission as soon as said offenses are discovered by the Commission
or its agents or employees. Any other provision of law to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Commission shall make available to the
appropriate district attorney, or to the authorized agent of said
district attorney, its records and files pertinent to such
prosecutions, and such records and files shall be fully admissible
for the purpose of such prosecutions.
any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state or evade
the payment of any income tax, shall fail to file a state income tax
return when such person is required to do so by the statutes of
Oklahoma, and within the time in which such returns are required to
be filed, or within a time extension if obtained from the Tax
Commission shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a felony and shall
be punished as provided for in Section 240.1 of this title.
B. Any person, natural or corporate, or any officer or agent of
any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state, or evade
the payment of any income tax, files a state income tax return which
is false in any material items or particular, shall be guilty, upon
conviction, of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished as
provided for in subsection A of Section 241 of this title.
C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the
state or any agency thereof from collecting any fees or penalties as
provided by law. Any corporate violator may be so fined.
D. Offenses defined in this section shall be reported to the
appropriate district attorney of this state by the Oklahoma Tax
Commission as soon as said offenses are discovered by the Commission
or its agents or employees. Any other provision of law to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Commission shall make available to the
appropriate district attorney, or to the authorized agent of said
district attorney, its records and files pertinent to such
prosecutions, and such records and files shall be fully admissible
for the purpose of such prosecutions.
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