All corporations organized under sections 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, shall pay to the Commissioner of Revenue Services on or before March first, annually, a charge at the rate of two per cent of the total net direct subscriber charges received by such corporation during the next preceding calendar year, which shall be in addition to any other payment required under section 38a-48. The charge required under this section and any other payment required under said section 38a-48 shall be in compensation for the costs and expenses of regulation by the Insurance Department and all other governmental services. The provisions of this chapter pertaining to the filing of returns, declarations, assessment and collection of taxes, and penalties imposed on domestic insurance companies shall apply with respect to the charge imposed under this section, provided corporations subject to the charge imposed under this section shall not be subject to any tax imposed under this chapter.
(June, 1969, P.A. 1, S. 10; June, 1971, P.A. 5, S. 110; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 17, 345, 348; P.A. 82-259, S. 2, 7; P.A. 90-134, S. 16, 28; P.A. 15-247, S. 28.)
History: 1971 act made provisions generally applicable by deleting references to specific years; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, placed insurance commissioner within department of business regulation and made insurance department a division within said department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 substituted Sec. 38-53b for Sec. 38-51 and reinstated insurance division as independent department, deleting reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 82-259 clarified language concerning provisions of chapter 207 applicable to hospital and medical service corporations; P.A. 90-134 excluded direct subscriber charges for special health care plans from consideration as part of net direct subscriber charges used to calculate rates; P.A. 15-247 deleted reference to net direct subscriber charges received from employers for any special health care plan, effective July 10, 2015.