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NMSA 1978 Chapter 7 — Taxation

NMSA 1978, § 7-1-72

Attempts to evade or defeat tax

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Any person who willfully attempts to evade or defeat any tax or the payment thereof is, in addition to other penalties provided by law, guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five years, or both such fine and imprisonment, together with the costs of prosecution.

Amendment history

1953 Comp., § 72-13-85, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 248, § 73.

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In this article (40 sections)
  1. 7-1-53 · Enjoining delinquent taxpayer from continuing in business
  2. 7-1-54 · Security for payment of tax
  3. 7-1-55 · Contractor's bond for gross receipts; tax; penalty
  4. 7-1-56 · Sale of or proceedings against security
  5. 7-1-57 · Surety bonds
  6. 7-1-58 · Permanence of tax debt; civil actions to collect tax
  7. 7-1-59 · Jeopardy assessments
  8. 7-1-60 · Estoppel against state
  9. 7-1-61 · Duty of successor in business
  10. 7-1-62 · Duty of secretary; release of successor
  11. 7-1-63 · Assessment of tax due; application of payment
  12. 7-1-64 · Repealed
  13. 7-1-65 · Reciprocal enforcement of tax judgments
  14. 7-1-66 · 7-1-66
  15. 7-1-67 · Interest on deficiencies
  16. 7-1-67.1 · Repealed
  17. 7-1-68 · Interest on overpayments
  18. 7-1-69 · Civil penalty for failure to pay tax or file a return
  19. 7-1-69.1 · Civil penalty for failure to file an information return
  20. 7-1-69.2 · Civil penalty for failure to correctly file certain…
  21. 7-1-70 · Civil penalty for bad checks
  22. 7-1-71 · Civil penalty for failure to collect and pay over tax
  23. 7-1-71.1 · Tax return preparers; requirements; penalties
  24. 7-1-71.2 · Repealed
  25. 7-1-71.3 · Willful failure to collect and pay over taxes
  26. 7-1-71.4 · Tax return preparer; electronic filing requirement; penalty
  27. 7-1-72 · Attempts to evade or defeat tax
  28. 7-1-72.1 · 7-1-72.1
  29. 7-1-73 · Tax fraud
  30. 7-1-74 · 7-1-74
  31. 7-1-75 · Assault and battery of a department employee
  32. 7-1-76 · Revealing information concerning taxpayers
  33. 7-1-77 · 7-1-77
  34. 7-1-78 · Burden of proof in fraud cases
  35. 7-1-79 · Enforcement officials
  36. 7-1-80 · Dissolution or withdrawal of corporation
  37. 7-1-81 · Repealed
  38. 7-1-82 · 7-1-82
  39. 7-1-83 · 7-1-83
  40. 7-1-84 · Tax expenditure budget
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