Section 3-512 - Treasury offset program - Delinquent unemployment taxesA. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission shall be authorized to collect state unemployment tax indebtedness established pursuant to Article 3 of the Employment Security Act of 1980, through the Tax Offset Program of the U.S. Department of the Treasury pursuant to 26 U.S.C., Section 6402(f) and 31 CFR, Section 285.8. B. Before submitting an indebtedness to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection through the Tax Offset Program, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission shall notify the debtor in writing of the amount of the debt and the time period the indebtedness accrued. The notification shall give the debtor sixty (60) days from the date of mailing of the notice to present evidence to the Commission that all or a part of the indebtedness is not legally enforceable or is otherwise invalid. C. If the debtor responds to the notice by presenting evidence, the Commission shall evaluate the evidence and review its records of the indebtedness. Based on this evaluation and review, the Commission may modify the amount of the indebtedness. Once the evaluation and review process is complete, the indebtedness shall be submitted to the U.S. Department of Treasury for collection through the Tax Offset Program.D. If no evidence is presented by the debtor within the sixty-day time period allowed by the notice, the amount of the indebtedness will be submitted to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection through the Tax Offset Program.E. If the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission receives an erroneous payment from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission shall return the payment to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. If the money that was erroneously paid to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission had been credited to a state unemployment tax indebtedness, that indebtedness shall be reinstated to the amount that existed before the payment was credited.Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 3-512
Added by Laws 2015 , c. 249, s. 16, eff. 11/1/2015.