Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph to defraud the state of tax, if the amount is especially huge and the circumstances are especially serious, thus causing particularly heavy losses to the interests of the state, shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or death, and his property shall also be confiscated.
If a unit commits the crime specified in this article, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; Whoever falsely makes out a large amount of taxes or has other serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever falsely makes out a huge amount of tax or has other particularly serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment.