(A) If a person liable for the user fee files a false or fraudulent return, there is added to the user fee an amount as provided in Section 12-54-43(G)(1).
(B) The department shall impose a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for a person's first occurrence of transporting motor fuel subject to the user fee without adequate shipping papers annotated as required under Sections 12-28-1510, 12-28-1540, and 12-28-1545. Each subsequent occurrence described in this subsection is subject to a civil penalty of five thousand dollars.
(C) The department shall impose a civil penalty on the operator of a vehicle of two hundred dollars for the initial occurrence in each calendar year of a violation of the prohibition of use of dyed motor fuel subject to the user fee on the public highways of this State. Each subsequent offense in a calendar year is subject to a civil penalty of five thousand dollars.
(D) A supplier who makes sales for export to a person who does not have an appropriate export license or without collection of the destination state tax on taxable motor fuel nonexempt in the destination state is subject to a civil penalty equal to the amount of this state's motor fuel tax in addition to the user fee due to South Carolina.
(E) The department may impose a civil penalty against every terminal operator who wilfully fails to meet shipping paper issuance requirements under Sections 12-28-920, 12-28-1500, and 12-28-1575 or wilfully files a return without the supporting schedules as required by the department pursuant to Sections 12-28-1330 and 12-28-1340. The civil penalty imposed on the terminal operator is the same as the civil penalty imposed under subsection (B).
(F) The department shall impose a civil penalty in an amount equivalent to that imposed by Section 6715 of the Internal Revenue Code on the operator of a vehicle who knowingly violates the prohibition on the sale or use of dyed fuel upon public highways of this State.
(G) An importer or transporter who knowingly imports undyed motor fuel subject to the user fee in a transport truck without a valid importer license or supplier license and an import verification number or a shipping paper showing on its face, as required under this chapter, that this state's motor fuel user fee is not due is subject to a civil penalty of ten thousand dollars for each occurrence. This subsection does not apply to persons transporting motor fuel subject to the user fee through this State in interstate commerce.
(H) If a person liable for the user fee files a return and wilfully fails to provide all information required by the department, the department may add to the user fee the amount provided in Section 12-54-43(C)(1).