A. When a fiduciary, agent or other person has the control, receipt, custody or disposal of or pays the wages of an employee or group of employees employed by one or more employers and the fiduciary, agent or other person has been designated by the United States secretary of the treasury to perform such acts as are required of employers for federal withholding purposes under the Internal Revenue Code, the fiduciary, agent or other person shall perform the acts required of employers by the provisions of the Withholding Tax Act. All provisions of Chapter 7 NMSA 1978 applicable in respect to an employer shall be applicable to a fiduciary, agent or other person so designated, but the employer, unless provided otherwise by law, for whom the fiduciary, agent or other person acts shall remain subject to the provisions of Chapter 7 NMSA 1978 applicable in respect to employers.
B. For purposes of the Withholding Tax Act, if a lender, surety or other person who is not an employer under the Withholding Tax Act with respect to an employee or group of employees, pays wages directly to the employee or group of employees employed by one or more employers or to an agent on behalf of the employee or employees, the lender, surety or other person shall be liable in its own person and estate to the state of New Mexico in a sum equal to the taxes required to be deducted and withheld from those wages by the employer. Any amount paid pursuant to this subsection shall be credited against the liability of the employer.
History: 1978 Comp., § 7-3-11, enacted by Laws 1990, ch. 64, § 9.
Cross references. — For the Internal Revenue Code, see Title 26 of the United States Code.
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