(1) If an employer fails to file a required quarterly tax report or quarterly detail of employees’ wages and hours of work by the 10th day of the second month following the end of the calendar quarter, the Director of the Employment Department, for the first such failure, shall send to the employer at the employer’s last-known address a written notice warning the employer that a subsequent failure to file a required report could result in the imposition of a late filing penalty. If an employer, without good cause, fails to file a required report within the three-year period immediately following a written warning, the employer may be assessed a late filing penalty in addition to other amounts due. The penalty shall be 0.0002 of the taxable wage base in effect for the year against which the penalty is being assessed for each employee listed each quarter on the late filed reports. However, the minimum penalty for any calendar quarter shall not be less than 0.0025 nor the maximum penalty more than 0.05 of the taxable wage base in effect for the year.
(2) The penalty per employee shall be rounded to the nearest dollar. The minimum penalty shall be rounded to the nearest five-dollar interval and the maximum penalty shall be rounded to the nearest $100 interval.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, an employer who has no payroll during a calendar quarter shall not be assessed a penalty for the first quarter in which that employer’s report is filed late. Thereafter, the director may assess a $5 penalty when such employer’s reports continue to be filed late.
(4) The penalty assessed under this section shall be final unless, within 20 days from the date of mailing of the assessment to the last-known address of the employer, the employer requests the penalty be deleted. The request must be in writing and state the reason why the report was filed late. If the director determines the employer had good cause for filing the report late, the penalty shall be deleted. If it is determined there was not good cause for filing the report late, the request for deletion shall be denied.
(5) A decision denying the request shall become final, unless within 20 days from the date of mailing the decision to the last-known address of the employer, the employer files a request for hearing. The request for a hearing must be in writing and state the reasons therefor. Judicial review shall be as provided for review of orders in contested cases in ORS chapter 183, except that the petition shall be filed within 20 days after the issuance of the order of the director or a designated representative. [1981 c.77 §15 (enacted in lieu of 657.662); 1983 c.508 §12; 1985 c.147 §1; 1995 c.153 §2; 1999 c.849 §§143,144; 2003 c.75 §54]
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