59. Every person who fails to file a return or report as and when prescribed by a fiscal law, a regulation made under such a law or a ministerial order, or who fails to conform with a demand made under section 39, incurs a penalty of $25 for each day during which the failure continues, up to $2,500.
However, where a member of a partnership fails to file an information return in accordance with section 1086R78 of the Regulation respecting the Taxation Act (chapter I-3, r. 1) as and when prescribed, the partnership incurs the penalty provided for in the first paragraph.
Every person who fails to furnish the certificate of ownership required by section 54, who fails to issue the certificate in the manner and at the time and place prescribed or who cashes a coupon or security for which a certificate of ownership has not been furnished incurs a penalty of $50.
1972, c. 22, s. 59; 1983, c. 43, s. 8; 1990, c. 7, s. 227; 1991, c. 67, s. 585; 1997, c. 14, s. 306; 1997, c. 85, s. 351; 2003, c. 2, s. 298; 2015, c. 21, s. 12.