Interest and penalties

1. Penalties and interest shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of North Dakota Century Code section 26.1-03-17 for a failure to file the quarterly estimated tax statement or the reconciled tax statement or both, or pay the estimated or reconciled tax. 2. If an insurance company fails to pay the quarterly estimated tax or reconciled taxes prescribed by North Dakota Century Code section 26.1-03-17 in the time required, penalties of five percent shall accrue thereon, or one hundred dollars, whichever is greater, plus six percent of the tax for each day of delay except the first day after the tax became due for that quarter or year. 3. Failure of the company to make each estimated return and payments of at least one quarter of the total reconciled tax paid during the previous calendar year, or eighty percent of the actual reconciled tax for the current calendar year, shall subject the company to the penalty and interest provided in subsection 2 on the tax payable for that calendar year.