Section 145.971

Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE

Chapter 145

Effective - 01 Jan 1981, see footnote   

  145.971.  Director to determine form and content of returns, documents — investigative powers — retention period for reports and returns. — 1.  The director of revenue may prescribe the form and contents of any return or other documents, including a copy of part or all of a federal return, required to be filed under the provisions of sections 145.011 to 145.995.

  2.  The director of revenue for the purpose of ascertaining the corrections of any return, or for the purpose of making an estimate of any person, shall have power to examine or to cause to have examined, by any agent or representative designated by him for that purpose, any books, papers, records, or memoranda bearing upon the matters required to be included in the return, and may require the attendance of the person rendering the return or any officer or employee of such person, or the attendance of any other person having knowledge in the premises, and may take testimony and require proof material for his information, with power to administer oaths to such person or persons.

  3.  Reports and returns required to be filed under sections 145.011 to 145.995 shall be preserved for four years and thereafter until the director of revenue orders them destroyed.

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(L. 1980 S.B. 539)

Effective 1-1-81