§ 68-3030 — Effect of protest - Refund of excess taxes.

Oklahoma § 68-3030

• Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
• Title 68: Revenue And Taxation

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(a) The filing of protest as herein provided shall not prevent the spreading of record and the collection of any levy made by the excise board, but if any protest be filed as herein provided and any taxes shall be paid pending the hearing and determination of said protest or pending the decision of the Supreme Court, all that part of the levy alleged in said protest to be illegal shall be retained by the county treasurer in a separate fund until the legality of said levy has been determined, and all taxes paid by any taxpayer in excess of the amount finally determined to be legal shall be refunded by the county treasurer to the taxpayer, together with such interest thereon as may have been received by the county treasurer on such fund pending final determination of the illegality of such levy, upon verified claim filed with the county clerk at any time within six (6) months after such final determination. (b) It shall be the duty of the county clerk within thirty (30) days from the final determination of the illegality of all levies to notify all taxpayers by publication in one issue of a newspaper of general circulation in the county that refund will be made of excess tax collected. (c) If no demand is made for refund within said period of six (6) months, said taxes so collected and held shall be distributed to the fund or funds for which they were levied and collected and credited as a surplus therein for the next succeeding fiscal year.

Legislative History

Laws 1965, c. 501, § 2; Renumbered from § 24110 by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 163, eff. Jan. 1, 1992 and Laws 1991, c. 249, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.