A. Any person, natural or corporate, or any officer or agent of any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state or evade the payment of any income tax, shall fail to file a state income tax return when such person is required to do so by the statutes of Oklahoma, and within the time in which such returns are required to be filed, or within a time extension if obtained from the Tax Commission shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a felony and shall be punished as provided for in Section 240.1 of this title. B. Any person, natural or corporate, or any officer or agent of any corporation who, with the intent to defraud the state, or evade the payment of any income tax, files a state income tax return which is false in any material items or particular, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished as provided for in subsection A of Section 241 of this title. C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the state or any agency thereof from collecting any fees or penalties as provided by law. Any corporate violator may be so fined. D. Offenses defined in this section shall be reported to the appropriate district attorney of this state by the Oklahoma Tax Commission as soon as said offenses are discovered by the Commission or its agents or employees. Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Commission shall make available to the appropriate district attorney, or to the authorized agent of said district attorney, its records and files pertinent to such prosecutions, and such records and files shall be fully admissible for the purpose of such prosecutions. Added by Laws 1971, c. 137, § 26, emerg. eff. May 11, 1971. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 218, § 24, emerg. eff. June 9, 1986; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 564, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 564, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
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