West Virginia Code § 12-2-1

How and to whom taxes and other amounts due the state or any political
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subdivision, official, department, board, commission or other collecting agency
thereof may be paid.
All persons, firms and corporations shall promptly pay all taxes and other amounts due from
them to the state, or to any political subdivision, official, department, board, commission or
other collecting agency thereof authorized by law to collect the taxes and oteher amounts due
by any authorized commercially acceptable means, in money, United States currency or by
check, bank draft, certified check, cashier's check, post office money orrder, express money
order or electronic funds transfer payable and delivered to the official, department, board,
commission or collecting agency thereof authorized by law to collect the taxes and other
amounts due and having the account upon which the taxes or amounts due are chargeable
against the payer of the taxes or amounts due. The duly electted or appointed officers of the
state and of its political subdivisions, departments, boards, commissions and collecting
agencies having the account on which the taxes or other amounts due are chargeable
against the payer of the taxes or other amounts due and authorized by law to collect the
taxes or other amounts due, and their respective agents, deputies, assistants and employees
shall in no case be the agent of the payer in and about the collection of the taxes or other
amounts, but shall at all times and under all circumstances be the agent of the state, its
political subdivision, official, department, board, commission or collecting agency having the
account on which the taxes or amounts are chargeable against the payer of the taxes or
other amounts due and authorized by law to collect the same.

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