Remittance of charges; administrative fee

A. The surcharge collected shall be remitted monthly to the department, which shall administer and enforce collection of the surcharge in accordance with the Tax Administration Act [Chapter 7, Article 1 NMSA 1978]. The surcharge shall be remitted to the department no later than the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which the surcharge was imposed. At that time, a return for the preceding month shall be filed with the department in such form as the department and communications service provider shall agree upon. A communications service provider required to file a return shall deliver the return together with a remittance of the amount of the surcharge payable to the department. The communications service provider shall maintain a record of the amount of each surcharge collected pursuant to the Enhanced 911 Act. The record shall be maintained for a period of three years after the time the surcharges were collected. B. From a remittance to the department made on or before the date it becomes due, a telecommunications company or commercial mobile radio service provider required to make a remittance shall be entitled to deduct and retain one percent of the collected amount or fifty dollars ($50.00), whichever is greater, as the administrative cost for collecting the surcharge. History: Laws 1989, ch. 25, § 7; 1993, ch. 48, § 8; 2001, ch. 110, § 5; 2005, ch. 203, § 4; 2017, ch. 122, § 3.