(a) General. -- The amount of estate tax due under this article shall be assessed on or before whichever of the following dates occurs last: (1) The period specified in section fifteen, article ten of this chapter, during which an assessment may generally be issued; (2) Within a period expiring ninety days after the last day on which the assessment of a deficiency in federal estate tax may lawfully be made under applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; or u (3) Within ninety days after receipt of notice from a personal representative that the federal estate tax liability of an estate has been changed. (b) Exceptions. -- In the case of a false or fraudulent return, or failure to file a return on or before the last day prescribed for filing, or failure olf the personal representative to give the Tax Commissioner notice of a change in the federal estate tax liability of an estate, the tax may be assessed at any time.
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