Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 3406-301. Monthly returns and payment

(a) The taxes imposed by this act shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of the calendar month succeeding the month during which the purchase of tangible personal property on the storage, use or other consumption of which the tax is being paid is made.

(b) Each taxpayer or seller maintaining a place of business in this Commonwealth shall make out and sign a return for the preceding calendar month.  Such return shall be mailed to the department in time so that it will reach the department, in the ordinary course of the mails, on or before the twentieth day of the month succeeding the month during which the purchase of tangible personal property on the storage, use or other consumption of which the tax is being paid is made.  The return shall be on a form prescribed by the department.

(c) Each such return shall show:

(d) Any such return may be signed by a duly authorized agent of the taxpayer with the same effect as if signed by the taxpayer himself.  Any person making a false return shall be guilty of perjury to the same extent as though the return had been sworn to.  A remittance for the amount of the tax shall accompany each return.