68 OK Stat § 68-1010 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 68. Revenue and Taxation|§68-1010. Information in monthly report - Reporting numbers assigned by Tax Commission - Delinquencies - Allowance of semiannual reports.

|A. The tax provided for in Section 1001 et seq. of this title shall be paid to the Oklahoma Tax Commission. |B. Except as otherwise provided in subsection G of this section, every person responsible for paying or remitting the tax levied by Section 1001 et seq. of this title on the production from any lease shall file with the Tax Commission a monthly report on each lease, under oath, on forms prescribed by the Tax Commission, giving, with other information required, the following:1. The Tax Commission assigned production unit number, subnumber and merge number, or, with the consent of the Tax Commission, the full description of the property by lease name, subdivision of quarter section, section, township, and range, from which the oil or gas was produced, or both, as may be required by the Tax Commission;2. The Tax Commission assigned company reporting numbers of the producer and purchaser, or with the consent of the Tax Commission, the company name;3. The gross amount of asphalt, ores bearing lead, zinc, jack or copper, oil or gas produced or purchased;4. The kind of mineral, oil, gas, or casinghead gas produced or purchased;5. The total value of the mineral oil, gas, or casinghead gas, at the time and place of production, including any and all premiums paid for the sale thereof, at the price paid, if purchased at the time of production;6. If requested by the Tax Commission, the prevailing market price of oil not sold at the time of production; and7. The amount of royalty payable on the production from the lease, if the royalty is claimed to be exempt from taxation by law, and the facts on which such claim of exemption is based and such other information pertaining to the claim as the Tax Commission may require.Each report required by the provisions of this section shall be filed on separate forms as to product and county.C. No person shall engage in the mining or production within this state of asphalt, ores bearing lead, zinc, jack or copper, oil or gas, prior to obtaining from the Tax Commission a Tax Commission assigned producer reporting number and a Tax Commission assigned production unit number, subnumber and merge number for each producing lease. No person shall engage in the purchase of asphalt, ores bearing lead, zinc, jack or copper, oil or gas from a producing lease prior to obtaining from the Tax Commission a Tax Commission assigned purchaser reporting number and the Tax Commission assigned production unit number, subnumber and merge number, of the lease from which the production is to be purchased.1. Every producer and purchaser shall make application, upon forms prescribed by the Tax Commission, for a Tax Commission assigned producer or purchaser reporting number prior to producing or purchasing production. Every producer shall obtain, by making application upon forms prescribed by the Tax Commission, a Tax Commission assigned production unit number, subnumber and merge number for each lease from which lease production will be sold or disposed before disposing of production from any lease in the state.Provided, however, the Tax Commission shall not approve any application for a Tax Commission assigned producer or purchaser reporting number without proper confirmation that the applicant has posted the requisite surety documents with the Corporation Commission pursuant to Section 318.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes.2. Every producer or purchaser shall notify the Tax Commission within thirty (30) days of any changes of any producing lease in the state as may be required by the Tax Commission. Provided, the Tax Commission may relieve producers and purchasers of their duty to file the notification required by this paragraph if the Tax Commission determines that the notification is not necessary.3. Gross production tax reports from either the purchaser or producer shall become due on the first day of each calendar month on all products subject to the tax levied by Section 1001 et seq. of this title produced in and saved during the preceding monthly period. If such reports are not received by the Tax Commission on or before the twenty-fifth day of the second calendar month following the month of production, the reports shall become delinquent. Any requested or required amended report or any requested information submitted in response to written demand for information which is not received by the Tax Commission on or before thirty (30) days after the mailing of the request or demand by the Tax Commission or any of its employees shall be delinquent.D. Every person required to file such forms or reports or who has been requested to file an amended report to provide information by written demand, or who has purchased oil or gas from a lease prior to being authorized by the Tax Commission to purchase production from such lease, will be subject to and may be assessed the following penalties for each delinquency:1. Five Dollars ($5.00) per day for each Tax Commission assigned production unit number or subnumber or merge number or product code, upon which a form, report, amended report, or for which requested information in response to written demand is delinquent and for each day from the date a purchaser buys production from a lease from which it is not authorized to purchase to the date the Tax Commission approves the purchaser to buy from such lease; provided, such penalty shall not be assessed for an amount in excess of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00). The penalties may be waived by the Tax Commission or its designee for good cause shown; and2. If within twelve (12) months after a previous assessment of penalties as provided for by this section a subsequent delinquency occurs, penalties may be assessed at the rate of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day for each Tax Commission assigned production unit number or subnumber or merge number, or product code; provided such penalty shall not be assessed for an amount in excess of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00). The penalty thereon may be waived, in whole or in part, by the Tax Commission, for good cause shown.The penalties prescribed herein shall be in addition to other penalties assessable by the Tax Commission pursuant to the laws of this state. The penalties prescribed by this section may be collected and shall be apportioned to the General Revenue Fund.E. Gross production tax forms reports, amended reports, or requested information in response to written demands which are received by the Tax Commission on or after the time fixed for delinquency, but which were mailed prior to the time fixed for delinquency, shall be deemed to have been received by the Tax Commission before becoming delinquent. Postmark or registry or certified receipt showing deposit in the U.S. mails shall be conclusive evidence of the date of mailing. Provided all remittances due under such reports or amended reports must be received by the Tax Commission on or before the date specified by law regardless of when mailed.F. In the event a person required to remit the tax levied by the provisions of Section 1001 et seq. of this title becomes delinquent in reporting or remitting the tax, or upon a determination by the Tax Commission that the state may lose tax revenues due to the difficulty of collecting same, the Tax Commission may require any person required to remit the tax to furnish a sufficient cash deposit, bond, or other security in an amount as will protect the tax revenues of this state.G. In lieu of monthly reporting, a royalty owner taking gas in kind for the royalty owner's own consumption who is responsible for remitting the tax levied by Section 1001 et seq. of this title may file semiannual reports and remit taxes due thereunder to the Tax Commission on or before the first day of January and July of each year for the preceding six-month period. If not received on or before the last day of such month, the report and tax shall be delinquent.Added by Laws 1963, c. 365, § 2, emerg. eff. June 22, 1963. Renumbered from § 10-1010 of this title by Laws 1965, c. 215, § 2. Amended by Laws 1965, c. 346, § 2; Laws 1968, c. 341, § 3, emerg. eff. May 9, 1968; Laws 1979, c. 88, § 3, emerg. eff. April 24, 1979; Laws 1980, c. 129, § 2, emerg. eff. April 14, 1980; Laws 1983, c. 13, § 4, emerg. eff. March 23, 1983; Laws 1983, c. 275, § 7, emerg. eff. June 24, 1983; Laws 1989, c. 28, § 1, eff. July 1, 1989; Laws 1989, c. 249, § 20, eff. July 1, 1989; Laws 1990, c. 339, § 4, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 30, § 8, emerg. eff. March 31, 1992; Laws 1994, c. 278, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 2001, c. 358, § 13, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2004, c. 444, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2013, c. 277, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.