63-103. EMPLOYEES — COMPENSATION — EXPENSES. (1) The state tax commission may employ an officer who shall serve as secretary of the commission and shall also employ such other persons as may be necessary for the performance of its duties. Certain of its employees may be designated as deputies who shall perform such duties as prescribed by the state tax commission. The state tax commission may delegate to any of its employees the duty of assisting in the collection, audit, inspection and enforcement of any tax or license and may authorize any of its employees to act in its place and stead. The state tax commission may delegate any other function, responsibility or duty imposed upon the commission to one (1) or more commissioners or deputy commissioners; provided however, where the amount in issue relating to the tax liability of any taxpayer is equal to or exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), and the commission has delegated the authority to compromise such liability to an individual commissioner, the settlement or closing agreement procedure shall be governed by the provisions of section 63-3048, Idaho Code.

(2) The compensation of all state tax commission employees shall be paid upon the same basis and in the same manner as the compensation of other state employees is paid.

(3) The traveling expenses of the members of the state tax commission and its employees when traveling in performance of official duty, and other necessary expenses incurred in performance of its duties, shall be paid upon the same basis and in the same manner as the expenses of other state employees are paid.

History:

[63-103, added 1996, ch. 98, sec. 2, p. 311; am. 1997, ch. 173, sec. 1, p. 491; am. 2009, ch. 120, sec. 1, p. 384.]