Massachusetts General Laws (Tax)

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 65C, § 27

Willful failure to pay tax or provide information; penalties

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Section 27. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, any person required under this chapter to pay any tax, or required by this chapter or chapter sixty-two C, or regulations made under the authority of chapter fourteen and chapter sixty-two C to make a return or supply any information, who willfully fails to pay such tax or make such return or supply such information at the time or times required by law or regulations, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than one year, or both.

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In this chapter (26 sections)
  1. 65C-1 · Definitions
  2. 65C-2 · Computation of estate tax
  3. 65C-2A · Transfer of estate and real property; tax
  4. 65C-3 · Exemption and deductions
  5. 65C-3A · Qualified terminable interest property
  6. 65C-4 · Nonresident decedents; tax on certain property located in…
  7. 65C-4A · Generation-skipping transfers
  8. 65C-5 · Valuation; gross estate
  9. 65C-6 · Executor's liability for tax
  10. 65C-7 · Discharge of executor's personal liability
  11. 65C-8 · Records, statements and returns; rules and regulations
  12. 65C-9 · Repealed, 1976, 415, Sec. 115
  13. 65C-10 · Extension of due date for payment of tax
  14. 65C-11-12 · Repealed, 1976, 415, Sec. 115
  15. 65C-13 · Fraudulent underpayment; penalty
  16. 65C-14 · Lien for unpaid tax; liability for delinquent tax; release or…
  17. 65C-15 · Assessment of tax on decedent's transferee
  18. 65C-16 · Executor; fiduciaries; assumption of powers and duties
  19. 65C-17-to-20 · Repealed, 1976, 415, Sec. 115
  20. 65C-21 · Death taxes of nonresident decedent; proof of payment; filing
  21. 65C-22-23 · Repealed, 1976, 415, Sec. 115
  22. 65C-24 · Documents; issuance; fees
  23. 65C-25 · Repealed, 1976, 415, Sec. 115
  24. 65C-26 · Tax evasion; penalties
  25. 65C-27 · Willful failure to pay tax or provide information; penalties
  26. 65C-28 · Removal or concealment of goods; penalties
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