(a) The Commissioner of Revenue Services may enter into agreements with other states providing for reciprocal enforcement of the tax laws of the states entering into such reciprocal arrangements. As used herein, “state” shall include the District of Columbia. The provisions of such reciprocal arrangements may include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Each participating state may require any business within such state to collect or withhold those taxes for which a person becomes liable in another state in the arrangement as a result of a transaction or employment with such business in the participating state, provided such taxes are required to be collected or withheld under such circumstances in the other state; (2) each participating state may, with regard to any business within such state, administer, enforce, audit, assess and collect, on behalf of any other state participating in the agreement, the taxes which are imposed on such business under the laws of such other participating state; (3) the appropriate official of each participating state may bring suit to collect the taxes which are imposed under the laws of such state in the courts of any other participating state; (4) each participating state shall bear the costs which are incurred by it under such reciprocal agreements, and (5) the participating states shall decide upon commencement and termination of such reciprocal agreements.

(b) For purposes of making payment of any taxes which are collected by the Commissioner of Revenue Services on behalf of any other participating state under reciprocal agreements as described in subsection (a) of this section, the Comptroller, upon certification by the commissioner, is authorized to draw on the Treasurer in the amount of such payment and the Treasurer shall pay the amount thereof from the fund to which such taxes are credited.

(P.A. 88-223, S. 1, 2.)