66Agents and trustees

#### 66 Agents and trustees With respect to every agent and with respect also to every trustee, the following provisions shall apply: (a) He shall be answerable as an employer for the doing of all such things as are required to be done by virtue of this Act in respect of the payment of any wages which are subject to tax under this Act; (b) He shall, in respect of any such wages, make the returns and be chargeable with tax thereon, but in his representative capacity only, and each return shall, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be separate and distinct from any other; (c) If he is an executor or administrator, the returns shall be the same as far as practicable as the deceased person, if living, would have been liable to make; (d) Where as agent or trustee he pays tax, he is hereby authorized to recover the amount so paid from the person in whose behalf he paid it, or to deduct it from any money in his hands belonging to that person; (e) He is hereby authorized and required to retain from time to time out of any money which comes to him in his representative capacity so much as is sufficient to pay the tax which is or will become due in respect of such wages; (f) He is hereby made personally liable for the tax payable in respect of such wages if, after the Commissioner has required him to make a return, or while the tax remains unpaid, he disposes of or parts with any fund or money which comes to him from or out of which tax could legally be paid, but he shall not be otherwise personally liable for the tax: Provided that the Commissioner may, upon application by the agent or trustee permit disposal of such fund or money or part thereof as he considers necessary; (g) He is hereby indemnified for all payments which he makes in pursuance of this Act or by the requirements of the Commissioner; (h) For the purpose of insuring the payment of tax the Commissioner shall have the same remedies against attachable property of any kind vested in or under the control or management or in the possession of any agent or trustee, as he would have against the property of any other person in respect of tax, and in as full and ample a manner.