Any person receiving any payment on which a tax is levied under this chapter shall collect the amount of the tax imposed from the person making the admission payment. The tax required to be collected under this chapter shall be deemed to be held in trust by the person required to collect the same until paid to the Director of Finance as herein provided. Any person required to collect the tax imposed by this chapter who fails to collect the same, or having collected the same, fails to remit the same to the Director of Finance in the manner prescribed by this chapter, whether such failure be the result of his own act or acts or conditions beyond his control, shall nevertheless be personally liable to the City for the amount of such tax, and shall, unless the remittance be made as herein required, be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
The tax imposed hereunder shall be collected at the time the admission charge is paid by the person seeking admission to any place and shall be reported and remitted by the person receiving the tax to the Director of Finance in semiannual installments and remittances therefor on or before January 10 and July 10 of each calendar year hereafter, in each case for the six-month prior period in which the tax is collected or received. Payment or remittance of the tax collected may be by check, unless otherwise required by the Director of Finance. Payment by check shall not relieve the person collecting the tax from liability for payment and remittance of the tax to the Director of Finance unless the check is honored and is in the full and correct amount.
The person receiving any payment for admissions shall make out a return upon such forms and setting forth such information as the Director of Finance may require, showing the amount of the tax upon admissions for which he is liable for the preceding semiannual or other tax period, and shall sign and transmit the same to the Director of Finance with a remittance for the amount. The Director of Finance may in his discretion require verified annual returns from any person receiving admission payments, setting forth such additional information as he may deem necessary to correctly determine the amount of tax collected and payable.
Whenever any theatre, circus, show, exhibition, entertainment or amusement makes an admission charge which is subject to the tax herein levied, and the same is of a temporary or transitory nature, of which the Director of Finance shall be the judge, the Director may require the report and remittance of the admissions tax immediately upon the collection of the same, at the conclusion of the performance or exhibition, or at the conclusion of the series of performances or exhibitions, or at such other times as the Director shall determine. Failure to comply with any requirement of the Director of Finance as to report and remittance of the tax as required shall be a violation of this chapter.
The books, records and accounts of any person collecting a tax herein levied shall, as to the admission charges and tax collections, be at all reasonable times subject to examination and audit by the Director of Finance.
If the tax imposed by this chapter is not paid when due, there shall be added as part of the tax, interest at the rate of one percent per month from the time when the tax became due until the same is paid.
(Ord. 1956-72. Passed 4-19-56.)