Rate. Collection. Regulations

(a) The surcharge imposed by section 12-665 shall be at a rate of one dollar for each day, or portion thereof, up to thirty days, for which the lessor charges the lessee for the rental or lease of such a motor vehicle. (b) Reimbursement for the surcharge imposed by section 12-665 shall be collected by the lessor from the lessee and such surcharge reimbursement, termed “surcharge” in this subsection, shall be paid by the consumer to the retailer and each retailer shall collect from the consumer the full amount of the surcharge imposed by section 12-665. Such surcharge shall be a debt from the lessee to the lessor, when so added to the original lease or rental price, and shall be recoverable at law in the same manner as other debts. Whenever such surcharge, payable by the consumer with respect to a charge account or credit sale is remitted by the retailer to the commissioner and such sale as an account receivable is determined to be worthless and is actually written off as uncollectible for federal income tax purposes, the amount of such surcharge remitted may be credited against the surcharge due on the surcharge return filed by the retailer for the monthly or quarterly period, whichever is applicable, next following the period in which such amount is actually so written off, but in no event shall such credit be allowed later than three years following the date such surcharge is remitted. The commissioner shall, by regulations adopted in accordance with chapter 54, provide standards for proving any such claim for credit. If any account with respect to which such credit is allowed is thereafter collected by the retailer in whole or in part, the amount so collected shall be included in the surcharge return covering the period in which such collection occurs.