(1) If 2 or more persons are jointly or severally liable to pay an amount under a tax law, the Commissioner may recover the whole of the amount from them, or any of them, or any 1 of them.
(2) Nothing in this Act prevents a person who is jointly or severally liable to pay an amount of tax and who pays the amount to the Commissioner from recovering a contribution from any other person who is liable to pay the whole or part of that amount.