Okla. Admin. Code § 710:70-5-8

Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024

Section 710:70-5-8 - Reports on tobacco products by persons, retailers, consumers, carriers or bailees other than those required to report and pay tax

(a) Every person or entity, listed below, who possesses, controls, transports, uses or in any manner deals with tobacco products within this State subject to the tobacco products excise tax, upon which the tax has not been paid, even though not the party required to pay the tax, shall file a monthly report to the Oklahoma Tax Commission on prescribed forms as follows:

(1) Every retailer or consumer purchasing tobacco products subject to tax shall report those purchases to the Oklahoma Tax Commission on the Monthly Tobacco Products Tax Reports in accordance with 710:70-5-3 through 710:70-5-5, as required of licensed manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers or consumers.

(2) Every carrier transporting tobacco products, subject to tax, to a point within this State shall monthly report to the Oklahoma Tax Commission the following information:

(A) Name and business address of the carrier;

(B) The date of delivery of each shipment of said tobacco products transported and delivered into this State in the previous calendar month;

(C) The point of origin and the point of delivery of each shipment of said tobacco products transported and delivered into this State in the previous calendar month;

(D) The name of the person or entity to whom said tobacco products were delivered in this State in the previous calendar month; and

(E) Copies of all invoices, bills of lading or instruments of consignment of said tobacco products transported and delivered into this State in the previous calendar month, attached to said report.

(3) Every bailee having possession, custody, control, use or in any manner dealing with tobacco products within this State subject to the tax, shall report monthly to the Oklahoma Tax Commission as is required of carriers.

(b) All required monthly reports shall be due on or before the twentieth (20 ^th) day of the calendar month immediately following the calendar month in which the tobacco products subject to the tax are possessed, controlled, transported, used or in any manner dealt with in this State, in accordance with 710:70-5-5.

(c) Copies of invoices, bills of lading or other instruments of consignment submitted shall be subject to destruction upon completion of an office audit of the monthly report and shall not discharge the reporter from the statutory duty to maintain records and files of all such transactions and to permit inspection and examination thereof by the Commission. [See: 68 O.S. § 201; 68 O.S. §§ 401 et seq.]

Okla. Admin. Code § 710:70-5-8

Amended at 27 Ok Reg 2350, eff 7-11-10 ; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1474, eff 7-1-13

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 39, Issue 24, September 1, 2022, eff. 9/11/2022