Illinois Code § 8

§ 8.

When the amount due is under $300, any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting hotel rooms in this State who fails to make a return, or to keep books and records as required herein, or who makes a fraudulent return, or who wilfully violates any rule or regulation of the Department for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Act, or any officer or agent of a corporation engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting hotel rooms in this State who signs a fraudulent return made on behalf of such corporation, is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Any person who violates any provision of Section 5 of this Act is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Each and every day any such person is engaged in business in violation of said Section 5 shall constitute a separate offense. When the amount due is under $300, any person who accepts money that is due to the Department under this Act from a taxpayer for the purpose of acting as the taxpayer's agent to make the payment to the Department, but who fails to remit such payment to the Department when due is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Any such person who purports to make such payment by issuing or delivering a check or other order upon a real or fictitious depository for the payment of money, knowing that it will not be paid by the depository, shall be guilty of a deceptive practice in violation of Section 17-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012. Any hotel operator who collects or attempts to collect an amount (however designated) which purports to reimburse such operator for hotel operators' occupation tax liability measured by receipts which such operator knows are not subject to hotel operators' occupation tax, or any hotel operator who knowingly over-collects or attempts to over-collect an amount purporting to reimburse such operator for hotel operators' occupation tax liability in a transaction which is subject to the tax that is imposed by this Act, shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. When the amount due is $300 or more, any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting hotel rooms in this State who fails to make a return, or to keep books and records as required herein, or who makes a fraudulent return, or who wilfully violates any rule or regulation of the Department for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Act, or any officer or agent of a corporation engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting hotel rooms in this State who signs a fraudulent return made on behalf of such corporation is guilty of a Class 3 felony. When the amount due is $300 or more, any person who accepts money that is due to the Department under this Act from a taxpayer for the purpose of acting as the taxpayer's agent to make the payment to the Department, but who fails to remit such payment to the Department is guilty of a Class 3 felony. Any such person who purports to make such payment by issuing or delivering a check or other order upon a real or fictitious depository for the payment of money, knowing that it will not be paid by the depository, shall be guilty of a deceptive practice in violation of Section 17-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012. A prosecution for any act in violation of this Section may be commenced at any time within 3 years of the commission of that act. (Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)