If any operator shall fail or refuse to collect such tax and to make within the time provided in this subchapter, any report and remittance of such tax, or any portion thereof required by the provisions of this subchapter, the Director of Finance shall proceed in such manner as he may deem best to obtain the facts and information on which to base his estimate of the tax due. As soon as the Director of Finance shall procure such facts and information as he is able to obtain upon which to base the assessments of any such tax imposed by the provisions of this subchapter and payable by any operator who has failed or refused to collect the same and to make such report and remittance, the Director of Finance shall proceed to determine and assess against such operator the tax, interest, and penalties provided for by the provisions of this subchapter. In the event such determination is made, the Director of Finance shall give notice of the amount so assessed by serving it personally or by depositing it in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the operator so assessed at his last known place of address. Such operator may, within ten days after the service or mailing of such notice, make an application in writing to the Director of Finance for a hearing on the amount assessed. If an application by the operator for a hearing is not made within the time prescribed, the tax, interest, and penalties, if any, determined by the Director of Finance shall become final and conclusive and immediately due and payable. If such an application is made, the Director of Finance shall give not less than five days' written notice in the manner prescribed in this section to the operator to show cause at a time and place fixed in notice why the amount specified therein should not be fixed for such tax, interest, and penalties. At such hearing the operator may appear and offer evidence why such specified tax, interest, and penalties shall not be so fixed. After such hearing the Director of Finance shall determine the proper tax to be remitted and shall thereafter give written notice to the operator in the manner prescribed in this section of such determination and the amount of such tax, interest, and penalties. The amount determined to be due shall be payable 15 days after the service or mailing of such notice unless an appeal is filed as provided in § 35.079 of this section.
('63 Code, § 8-5.09) (Ord. 30-C.S., passed 1-30-65; tax operative, passed 3-1-65; Am. Ord. 382-C.S., passed 5-17-83) Penalty, see § 35.999