§ 46. Short title--Taxpayer Transparency Act--Definitions--Development and operation of website
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 62. Public Finance
62 Okl.St.Ann. § 46
§ 46. Short title--Taxpayer Transparency Act--Definitions--Development and operation of website
4. “Tax credit” means a credit pursuant to the Oklahoma Income Tax Act7 against tax liability which is taken by a taxpayer, excluding credits authorized under paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection B of Section 2357 and Sections 2357.29, 2357.29A and 2357.43 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
C. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall develop and operate a single website accessible by the public. The website shall include aggregate information on state and federal revenue, expenditures and incentive payments and information on state tax preferences as contained in the tax expenditure report published by the Oklahoma Tax Commission pursuant to subsection E of Section 205 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The website shall include search capabilities.
D. Effective January 1, 2011, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall update the website with “Open Books 2.0,” an expanded online database through which each individual expenditure shall be listed individually separate of aggregated amount. The information shall be searchable by term including name of recipient, entity making expenditure and date of expenditure. The website shall allow members of the public to export sets of data produced by search query in a standardized exportable form. No later than eighteen (18) months after “Open Books 2.0” is online, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall create an online archive for each fiscal year, beginning with Fiscal Year 2011, which shall be accessible and searchable to online users.
a. the name and principal location of the entity and/or recipients of the funds, excluding release of information relating to an individual's place of residence, release of information prohibited by subsection D of Section 24A.7 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes or by federal law relating to privacy rights,
F. The single website provided for in subsection C of this section shall include data on state revenue, expenditures and incentive payments for the fiscal year 2007 and each fiscal year thereafter, on state tax credits for tax year 2007 and each tax year thereafter, and on stimulus fund expenditures for the fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter. For the fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, the website shall include data which track the expenditure of federal funds by program. Such data shall be available on the single website no later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the last day of the preceding fiscal year; provided, data on stimulus fund expenditures for the fiscal year 2009 shall be available on the single website within one hundred twenty (120) days after June 10, 2010.
G. No later than January 1, 2012, the single website provided for in subsection C of this section shall include a section specific to data on road funding in this state. This section of the website shall include but not be limited to historical as well as current revenue collections and apportionment data on the following:
I. No later than January 1, 2015, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall include as part of the single website an interactive Oklahoma Taxpayer Receipt function. Such function shall allow the taxpayer to enter an amount or estimated amount of income and sales tax paid during the most recent year in order to obtain an itemized estimate of the percentage and dollar amount of the income and sales tax paid by the taxpayer which is allocated to various general categories of state expenditures.
J. The Oklahoma Tax Commission, the Office of the State Treasurer, all institutions of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and any other state agency shall provide to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services such information as is necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Taxpayer Transparency Act.
K. So that the Tax Commission may fulfill its obligations as required by this section, all recipients of tax credits, as that term is defined herein, shall file their reports or returns claiming the tax credits in an electronic format, as may be required by the Tax Commission. The Tax Commission may disallow any claim of a person for a tax credit due to its failure to file a report or return as required under the authority of this subsection.
M. The disclosure of information required by this section shall create no liability whatsoever, civil or criminal, to the State of Oklahoma or any member of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services or any employee thereof for disclosure of the information or for any error or omission in the disclosure.
N. The State Auditor and Inspector shall maintain a website providing public access to the documentation of stimulus funding pursuant to the requirements of this section. The website shall provide a list of all stimulus fund expenditures regardless of amount. The entire list of stimulus fund expenditures and each of the related content requirements as detailed in subsection D of this section shall be available for export in standardized formats including but not limited to eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and Comma Separated Value (CSV) formats. The list of expenditures shall include searchable functionality including but not limited to the ability to search the expenditures by the name of the entity receiving funding, name of entity processing funding and name of entity benefiting from funding.
Credits
Laws 2007, c. 327, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2010, c. 475, § 2, emerg. eff. June 10, 2010; Laws 2011, c. 1, § 29, emerg. eff. March 18, 2011; Laws 2011, c. 273, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; Laws 2012, c. 11, § 18, emerg. eff. April 4, 2012; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 424; Laws 2014, c. 170, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2016, c. 43, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
Footnotes
Title 68, § 3601 et seq.
Title 68, § 3701 et seq.
Title 68, § 3651 et seq.
Title 68, § 3901 et seq.
Title 68, § 4101 et seq.
Title 68, § 4201 et seq.
Title 68, § 2351 et seq.
62 Okl. St. Ann. § 46, OK ST T. 62 § 46
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 106 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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