25. The Minister may determine the duties, interest and penalties under a fiscal law and the regulations made under such a law and assess any person respecting any amount that he owes to Her Majesty in right of Québec under such a law or regulation.
Where a person bound to deduct, withhold or collect an amount by virtue of a fiscal law or regulations made by virtue of such a law has omitted to keep in prescribed manner the registers and books of account envisaged in subsection 1 of section 34 or to keep such registers and books of account, as well as the invoices and any other vouchers necessary to verify the information contained in such registers and books of account in accordance with section 37, or is unable or refuses to produce such registers, books of account and vouchers to a person authorized by the Minister to examine and audit them, the Minister may issue a certificate ascertaining such omission, inability or refusal, mentioning the amount assessed; such certificate shall then make proof of the amount assessed, unless the person establishes, by documentary proof, the exact amount that should have been assessed.
1972, c. 22, s. 25; 1974, c. 17, s. 4.