Any person who shall make any false or fraudulent report, or any false statement in any report with intent to defraud the state, or to evade the payment of any excise, or any part thereof imposed by section 48:4-20 of this title, or who shall aid or abet another in any attempt to evade the payment of any such excise, or any part thereof, or any person who shall make, or permit to be made, for any corporation, association or partnership any false report or any false statement in any report required to be filed under sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this title with intent to evade the payment of any excise hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.J.S. § 48:4-33