Section 429.145  Department's Authority to Administer the Law

a)      The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Law, to collect all taxes and penalties due under the Law, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in the Law and this Part, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty [410 ILCS 130/205(b)].

b)      In the administration of, and compliance with, the Law, the Department and persons who are subject to the Law shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2a, 2b, 2c, 3 (except provisions relating to transaction returns and quarter monthly payments, and except for provisions that are inconsistent with the Law), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth in the Law  [410 ILCS 130/205(b)].