(A) Any licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier may make a blanket election with the department to treat all removals from all of its out-of-state terminals with a destination in this State as shown on the terminal issued shipping paper as if the removals were removed across the rack by the supplier from a terminal in this State for all purposes.

(B) This election must be made by filing "notice of election" with the department as provided in this section.

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 12-28-910

  • Delivery: means the placing of motor fuel subject to the user fee or any liquid into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Department: means the South Carolina Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Import: means to bring motor fuel into this State for sale, use, or storage by any means of conveyance other than in the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Permissive supplier: means a person who does not meet the geographic jurisdictional connections to this State required of a supplier as defined in § 12-28-920(A), but who:

    (a) is a position holder in a federally qualified terminal located outside this State; or

    (b) acquires a product in out-of-state terminals from a position holder in a transaction that otherwise qualifies as a two-party exchange under § 12-28-110(63); and under this subitem and subitem (a);

    (c) is registered under Section 4101 of the Internal Revenue Code for transactions in taxable motor fuels in the bulk transfer/terminal distribution system. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Person: means a natural person, a partnership, a firm, an association, a corporation, a representative appointed by a court, the State, a political subdivision or any other entity, group, or syndicate. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Position holder: means the person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel in a terminal, as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Qualified terminal: means a qualified terminal as defined under Internal Revenue Code, regulation, and practices and which has been assigned a terminal control number by the Internal Revenue Service. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Rack: means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, a terminal, or a bulk plant into a railroad tank car, a transport truck, or another means of bulk transfer outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Removal: means a physical transfer other than by evaporation, loss, or destruction of motor fuel subject to the user fee from a terminal, manufacturing plant, customs custody, pipeline, marine vessel including barges and tankers, refinery, or any receptacle that stores motor fuel subject to the user fee. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Supplier: means a person who meets all the following conditions:

    (i) is subject to the general taxing jurisdiction of this State;

    (ii) is registered under Section 4101 of the Internal Revenue Code for transactions in taxable motor fuels in the bulk transfer/terminal distribution system; and

    (iii) is one of the following:

    1. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Terminal: is a storage and distribution facility for motor fuel subject to the user fee, supplied by pipeline or marine vessel, which has been registered as a qualified terminal by the Internal Revenue Service. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Two-party exchange: means a transaction in which a product is transferred from one licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier to another pursuant to an exchange agreement. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110

(C) The department shall release a list of electing suppliers under subsection (B) upon request by any person.

(D) The absence of an election by a supplier under this section does not relieve the supplier of responsibility for remitting the user fee imposed by this chapter upon the removal from an out-of-state terminal for import into this State by the supplier.

(E) A supplier which makes the election provided by this section shall pre-collect the user fee imposed by this chapter on all removals from a qualified terminal on its account as a position holder or a person receiving fuel from a position holder pursuant to a two-party exchange agreement without regard to the license status of the person acquiring the fuel from the supplier, the point or terms of sale, or the character of delivery.

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