Rhode Island General Laws Title 44. Taxation § 44-30-58. Requirements concerning returns, notices, records, and statements

(a) General. The tax administrator may prescribe regulations as to the keeping of records, the content and form of returns and statements, and the filing of copies of federal income tax returns and determinations. The tax administrator may require any person, by regulation or notice served upon the person, to make any returns, render any statements, or keep any records that the tax administrator may deem sufficient to show whether or not the person is liable for the tax or for collection of the tax.

(b) Partnerships. Every partnership having any income derived from Rhode Island sources, determined in accordance with the applicable rules of § 44-30-32 as in the case of a nonresident individual, shall make a return for the taxable year setting forth all items of income and deduction and any other pertinent information that the tax administrator may by regulation or instructions prescribe. Any partnership with nonresident partners having any income derived from Rhode Island sources shall be subject to the provisions of § 44-11-2.2.

(c) Information at source. The tax administrator may prescribe regulations and instructions requiring returns of information to be made and filed on or before February 28 of each year as to the payment or crediting in any calendar year of amounts of one hundred dollars ($100) or more to any Rhode Island personal income taxpayer. The returns may be required of any person, including lessees or mortgagors of real or personal property, fiduciaries, employers, and all officers and employees of this state, or of any municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state, having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of interest, rents, salaries, wages, premiums, dividends and other corporate distributions, annuities, compensations, remunerations, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits, or income. A duplicate of the statement as to tax withheld on wages, required to be furnished by an employer to an employee, shall constitute the return of information required to be made under this section with respect to the wages.

(d) Notice of qualification as fiduciary. Every receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for benefit of creditors, or other like fiduciary shall give notice of his or her qualification as such to the tax administrator as may be required by regulation.