Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 194
Data warehouse
# 1.
Information provided to State Tax Assessor; use and confidentiality of data.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of State and all executive branch departments, boards, commissions, divisions, authorities, districts or other executive branch agencies of the State shall annually provide to the State Tax Assessor, within 3 months of the request of the assessor, and in such form as the assessor may prescribe, electronic data that those entities possess unless such release is prohibited by federal law. Information provided to the assessor pursuant to this section must be treated as though it is tax return information that is subject to the confidentiality and disclosure provisions of section 191 and its disclosure is further restricted as requested by the agency providing the information and as agreed to by the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services.
# 2.
Expense of creating and maintaining data warehouse; transfer of funds.
The State Controller shall transfer from the General Fund an amount authorized by the assessor equal to the expenses incurred in creating and maintaining the data warehouse authorized by this section and in collecting the debts arising from the operation of the data warehouse. These expenses are limited to those resulting from 3rd-party contingency fee contracts for the services referenced in this section and include any associated expense charged by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Information Technology for directly related services. The amount transferred must be deposited into a dedicated, nonlapsing account to be used solely for the purpose of creating and maintaining the data warehouse. Interest earned on balances in the account accrue to the account.
# 3.
Report to Legislature.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 151-B · Independent Appeals Office
- 151-C · Taxpayer advocate and experience officer
- 151-D · Maine Board of Tax Appeals
- 152 · Payment of contested taxes
- 153 · Time of filing or paying
- 171 · Demand letter
- 172 · Denial, suspension or revocation of license
- 173 · Collection by warrant
- 174 · Collection by civil action
- 175 · Applicants for license or renewal of license
- 175-A · Tax lien
- 176 · Levy
- 176-A · Levy upon property
- 176-B · Access to financial records of individuals who owe Maine taxes
- 177 · Trust fund status of certain collections
- 178 · Priority of tax
- 182 · Injunctions
- 183 · Criminal offenses; statute of limitations
- 183-A · Subsequent offenses
- 184 · Criminal offenses
- 184-A · Intentional evasion of tax
- 185 · Set-off
- 185-A · Setoff of refunds to debts owed to other agencies of the State
- 186 · Interest
- 186-A · Additional interest
- 187 · Penalties
- 187-A · Preparer penalty
- 187-B · Penalties
- 188 · Remedies not exclusive
- 189 · Taxes as additional
- 190 · Effect of repeal
- 191 · Confidentiality of tax records
- 192 · Miscellaneous
- 193 · Returns; declaration covering perjury; submission of returns and…
- 194 · Data warehouse
- 194-A · Review of certain changes in the application of sales and use…
- 194-B · National criminal history record information
- 194-C · National criminal history record information of providers of…
- 194-D · Background investigations
- 194-E · Tribes deemed as acting in a governmental capacity