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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 125', '§ 186', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 5']

Village of Carthage, NY Utility Tax
Ch 125 Art I Utility Tax
§ 125-1 Tax imposed; applicability.
§ 125-2 Definitions.
§ 125-3 Records to be kept by utilities.
§ 125-4 Returns to be filed.
§ 125-5 Payment of tax.
§ 125-6 Insufficient or unsatisfactory returns; correction.
§ 125-7 Notice to be mailed.
§ 125-8 Penalty for failure to file or correct return.
§ 125-9 Refunds.
§ 125-10 Tax to be part of operating costs of utility.
§ 125-11 Action to force payment of tax.
§ 125-12 Additional rules and regulations.
Chapter 125 Taxation
[Adopted 5-21-1968 by L.L. No. 1-1968]
Chapter 125 Taxation Article I Utility Tax
A tax equal to 1% of its gross income or of gross operating income, as the case may be, from and after July 1, 1968, is hereby imposed upon every utility doing business in the Village of Carthage.
This tax shall have application only within the territorial limits of the Village of Carthage and shall be in addition to any and all other taxes. Such tax shall not be imposed on any transaction originating or consummated outside of the territorial limits of the Village of Carthage, notwithstanding that some act be necessarily performed with respect to such transaction within such limits.
Includes receipts received in or by reason of any sale, conditional or otherwise (except sales hereinafter referred to with respect to which it is provided that profits from the sale shall be included in gross income), made or service rendered for ultimate consumption or use by the purchaser in the Village of Carthage, including cash, credits and property of any kind or nature (whether or not such sale is made or such service is rendered for profit), without any deduction therefrom on account of the cost of the property sold, the cost of materials used, labor or services or other costs, interest or discount paid or any other expense whatsoever; also profits from the sale of securities; also profits from the sale of real property growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also profit from the sale of personal property (other than property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close of the period for which a return is made); also receipts from interest, dividends and royalties, derived from sources within the Village of Carthage other than such as are received from a corporation, a majority of whose voting stock is owned by the taxpaying utility, without any deduction therefrom for any expenses whatsoever incurred in connection with the receipt thereof; also profits from any transaction (except sales for resale and rentals) within the Village of Carthage whatsoever.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article or of § 186-a of the Tax Law of the State of New York, the words, "gross income" shall include, in the case of a utility engaged in selling telephony or telephone service, only receipts from local exchange service wholly consummated within the Village of Carthage, and, in the case of a utility engaged in selling telegraphy or telegraph service, only receipts from transactions wholly consummated within the Village of Carthage.
Includes receipts received in or by reason of any sale, conditional or otherwise, made for ultimate consumption or use by the purchaser of gas, electricity, steam, water, refrigeration, telephony or telegraphy, or in or by reason of the furnishing for such consumption or use of gas, electric, steam, water, refrigerator, telephone or telegraph service in the Village of Carthage, including cash, credits and property of any kind or nature, without any deduction therefrom on account of the cost of the property sold, the cost of materials used, labor or services or other costs, interest or discount paid or any other expenses whatsoever.
Persons, corporations, companies, associations, joint-stock associations, estates, assignee of rents, any person acting in a fiduciary capacity or any other entity and persons, their assignees, lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever or by any other means, except the state, municipalities, political and civil subdivisions of the state or municipality, public districts and corporations and associations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable or educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
Includes every person subject to the supervision of the State Department of Public Service, except persons engaged in the business of operating on the public highways of this state one or more omnibuses, having a seating capacity of more than seven persons, and persons engaged in the business of operating or leasing sleeping and parlor railroad cars or of operating railroads other than street surface, rapid transit, subway and elevated railroads, and also includes every person (whether or not such person is subject to such supervision) who sells gas, electricity, steam, water, refrigeration, telephony or telegraphy, delivered through mains, pipes or wires, or who furnishes gas, electric, steam, water, refrigerator, telephone or telegraph service, by means of mains, pipes or wires, regardless of whether such activities are the main business of such person or are only incidental thereto or whether use is made of the public streets.
Every utility subject to tax hereunder shall file annually, on or before the 25th day of February, a return for the 12 consecutive months ending December 31 preceding such return date or any portion thereof for which the tax imposed hereby is effective. The return shall state the gross income or gross operating income for the period covered. Returns shall be filed with the Village Treasurer on a form to be furnished by him for such purpose and shall contain such other date, information or matter as the Village Treasurer may require to be included therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subdivision, any utility whose average gross income or average gross operating income, as the case may be, for the aforesaid three-month period is less than $1,500 may file a return annually on June 25 for the 12 preceding calendar months, and the Village Treasurer may require any utility to file an annual return, which shall contain any data specified by him, regardless of whether the utility is subject to tax under this article. Every return shall have annexed thereto a certification by the head of the utility making the same, or of the owner or of a co-partner thereof, or of a principal officer of the corporation, if such business is conducted by a corporation, to the effect that the statements contained therein are true.
In case any return filed pursuant to this article shall be insufficient or unsatisfactory to the Village Treasurer, and if a corrected or sufficient return is not filed within 20 days after the same is required by notice from the Village Treasurer, or if no return is made for any period, the Village Treasurer shall determine the amount of tax due from such information as he is able to obtain and, if necessary, may estimate the tax on the basis of external indices or otherwise. The Village Treasurer shall give notice of such determination to the person liable for such tax. Such determination shall finally and irrevocably fix such tax, unless the person against whom it is assessed shall, within one year after the giving of notice of such determination, apply to the Village Treasurer for a hearing or unless the Village Treasurer, of his own motion, shall reduce the same. After such hearing, the Village Treasurer shall give notice of his decision to the person liable for the tax. Any final determination of the amount of any tax payable hereunder shall be reviewable for error, illegality or unconstitutionality or any other reason whatsoever by a proceeding under Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules as provided by § 5-530 of the Village Law of the State of New York. Where any tax imposed hereunder shall have been erroneously, illegally or unconstitutionally collected and application for the refund thereof duly made to the Village Treasurer and such officer shall have made a determination denying such refund, such determination shall be reviewable by a proceeding under Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules as provided by § 5-530 of the Village Law of the State of New York.
Any notice authorized or required under the provisions of this article may be given by mailing the same to the person for whom it is intended, in a postpaid envelope, addressed to such person at the address given by him in the last return filed by him under this section or, if no return has been filed, then to such address as may be obtainable. The mailing of such notice shall be presumptive evidence of the receipt of the same by the person to whom addressed. Any period of time, which is determined according to the provisions of this article by the giving of notice, shall commence to run from the date of mailing of such notice.
Any person failing to file a return or corrected return or to pay any tax or any portion thereof within the time required by this article shall be subject to a penalty of 5% of the amount of tax due, plus 1% of such tax for each month of delay or fraction thereof, excepting the first month, after such return was required to be filed or such tax became due; but the Village Treasurer, if satisfied that the delay was excusable, may remit all or any portion of such penalty.
If, within one year from the giving of notice of any determination or assessment of any tax or penalty, the person liable for the tax shall make application for a refund thereof and the Village Treasurer or the court shall determine that such tax or penalty or any portion thereof was erroneously or illegally collected, the Village Treasurer shall refund the amount so determined. For like cause and within the same period, a refund may be so made on the initiative of the Village Treasurer. However, no refund shall be made of a tax or penalty paid pursuant to a determination of the Village Treasurer, as hereinbefore provided, unless the Village Treasurer, after a hearing as hereinbefore provided, or of his own motion, shall have reduced the tax or penalty or it shall have been established in a proceeding in the manner provided by § 5-530 of the Village Law of the State of New York that such determination was erroneous or illegal. All refunds shall be made out of moneys collected under this article. An application for a refund, made as hereinbefore provided, shall be deemed an application for the revision of any tax or penalty complained of, and the Village Treasurer may receive additional evidence with respect thereto. After making his determination, the Village Treasurer shall give notice thereof to the person interested, and he shall be entitled to commence a proceeding to review such determination as provided by § 5-530 of the Village Law.
Whenever any person shall fail to pay any tax or penalty imposed under the provisions of this article, the Village Attorney shall, upon the request of the Village Treasurer, bring an action to enforce payment of the same. The proceeds of any judgment obtained in any such action shall be paid to the Village Treasurer.
In the administration of this article, the Village Treasurer shall have power to make such reasonable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be necessary for the exercise of his powers and the performance of his duties and to prescribe the form of blanks, reports and other records relating to the administration and enforcement of the tax, to take testimony and proofs, under oath, with reference to any matter within the line of his official duty under this article, and to subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, records, papers and documents.