Vermont Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7772
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7772
- Commissioner: shall mean the Commissioner of Taxes. See
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Dealer: means any wholesale dealer and retail dealer as herein defined. See
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- sell: means any transfer, exchange, or barter in any manner or by any means whatever, of any cigarettes or tobacco products. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Wholesale dealer: means a person who imports or causes to be imported into the State any cigarettes, little cigars, roll-your-own tobacco, snuff, new smokeless tobacco, or other tobacco product for sale or who sells or furnishes any of these products to other wholesale dealers or retail dealers for the purpose of resale, but not by small quantity or parcel to consumers thereof. See
§ 7772. Form and sale of stamps
(a) The Commissioner shall secure stamps of such designs and denominations as he or she shall prescribe to be affixed to packages of cigarettes as evidence of the payment to the tax imposed by this chapter. The Commissioner shall sell such stamps to licensed wholesale dealers at a discount of two and three-tenths percent of their face value for payment at time of sale.
(b) At the purchaser’s request, the Commissioner may sell stamps to be affixed to packages of cigarettes as evidence of the payment to the tax imposed by this chapter to licensed wholesale dealers for payment within 10 days, at a discount of one and five-tenths percent of their face value if timely paid. In determining whether to sell stamps for payment within 10 days, the Commissioner shall consider the credit history of the dealer and the filing and payment history, with respect to any tax administered by the Commissioner, of the dealer or any individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity with which the dealer is or was associated as principal, partner, officer, director, employee, agent, or incorporator.
(c) The Commissioner shall keep accurate records of all stamps sold to each wholesale dealer and shall pay over all receipts from the sale of stamps to the State Treasurer. (Amended 1959, No. 243, § 3; 1963, No. 226, § 3, eff. July 3, 1963; 1965, No. 131, § 2; 1981, No. 31, § 9; 1983, No. 2 (Sp. Sess.), § 4, eff. July 28, 1983; 2001, No. 140 (Adj. Sess.), § 37; 2013, No. 73, § 9, eff. June 5, 2013; 2015, No. 57, § 75, eff. June 11, 2015.)