The department may:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 42-3004

  • affixed: include imprinting tax meter stamps on packages and individual containers as authorized by the department. See Arizona Laws 42-3001
  • Department: means the department of revenue. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
  • Distributor: means any person that manufactures, produces, ships, transports or imports into this state or in any manner acquires or possesses for the purpose of making the first sale of the following:

    (a) Cigarettes without Arizona tax stamps affixed as required by this article. See Arizona Laws 42-3001

  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Luxury: means any article, object or device on which a tax is imposed under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 42-3001
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, municipal corporation, estate, trust, club, society or other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Arizona Laws 42-3001
  • Retailer: means any person that comes into possession of any luxury subject to the taxes imposed by this chapter for the purpose of selling it for consumption and not for resale. See Arizona Laws 42-3001
  • Wholesaler: means a person that sells any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor taxed under this chapter to retail dealers or for the purposes of resale only. See Arizona Laws 42-3001

1. Adopt rules, not in conflict with this chapter, necessary for the enforcement of this chapter, including rules relating to refunds of taxes paid under this chapter.

2. Adopt different detailed rules applicable to diverse methods and conditions of sale or use of the luxuries upon which a tax is imposed by this chapter.

3. Prescribe in each luxury classification:

(a) Upon whom, as between the distributor, the wholesaler and the retailer or between the owner, lessor or other person in possession of any luxury, except for cigarettes, the primary duty of affixing official stamps or official labels rests.

(b) The manner in which the stamps or labels shall be affixed.