1. In accordance with Article 1° of this Decree, the following are considered taxpayers of the Forestry Tax: primary industrialization centers, whether natural or legal persons, de facto or de jure, that industrialize roundwood from forest or trees on unplanted agricultural-use land, which does not come from agroforestry systems, whether it is their own property or they provide sawmill services to third parties.
2. The owners or representatives of primary industrialization centers shall be responsible for completing the Sworn Declaration of Forestry Tax form, monthly. This is done based on the cubic meters industrialized.
3. Once the form is completed, the owner or representative of the forest industry shall make the corresponding deposit into the account that the Forestry Administration designates for that purpose. Said deposit must be paid no later than the last day of the month following the one to which the tax corresponds.
4. When the sworn declaration is paid by check, the validity of the payment shall be subject to the check being honored upon its presentation at the corresponding bank.
5. The teller who receives the deposit must stamp the original and the three copies of both the deposit slip and the sworn declaration. These are distributed as follows: original and one copy shall remain in the possession of the Bank. The original shall be used by the bank for its records; one copy must be attached to the account statements that the bank must send to the Forestry Administration. The other two copies shall be given to the interested party. The latter must send one of them to the office of the corresponding Conservation Area (Área de Conservación).
6. The taxpayer must keep a copy of this declaration to be presented to the tax authorities when required, duly stamped by the bank branch where the tax was paid.
7. The personnel of the Conservation Area (Área de Conservación) must verify compliance with the payment of the forestry tax. Likewise, in accordance with Article 54 of the Forestry Law, the officials of the State Forestry Administration may carry out measurements of the wood being industrialized, in order to corroborate the volumes reported in the sworn declaration. Each taxpayer may be inspected as many times as the Administration deems appropriate. This information shall serve as the basis for developing projections about the wood industrialized by the taxpayers of the forestry tax and thereby corroborate the information provided by them in the sworn declaration. A copy of the measurement report carried out must be delivered to the taxpayer.