Tennessee § 67-4-1004 - Rate on cigarettes — Enforcement and administration fee — Expired tax stamps.

§ 67-4-1004. Rate on cigarettes — Enforcement and administration fee — Expired tax stamps.

The rate shall be three cents (3¢) on each cigarette. In addition to the tax provided in subsection (a), every dealer or distributor of tobacco products defined in this part shall pay an enforcement and administration fee to the department of five hundredths of a cent (0.05¢) per pack of cigarettes for sale in Tennessee. The fee shall be collected from each dealer or distributor upon the purchase of tobacco tax stamps from the commissioner. Any wholesale dealers, jobbers, tobacco distributors, and retail dealers having cigarette tax stamps, affixed and unaffixed, in their possession on July 1, 2007, shall not be required to pay the additional cigarette tax on the stamps resulting from the increase in the tax rate from ten (10) mills to three cents (3¢) on cigarettes bearing the stamps. In addition to the tax provided in subsection (a), there shall be levied an additional one-tenth of one cent (0.1¢) on each cigarette. Any wholesale dealers, jobbers, tobacco distributors, and retail dealers having cigarette tax stamps, affixed and unaffixed, in their possession on July 1, 2007, shall not be required to pay the additional cigarette tax on the stamps resulting from the increase in the tax rate of one-tenth of one cent (0.1¢) on cigarettes bearing the stamps. Acts 1937, ch. 133, § 4; 1937, ch. 201, § 1; 1937, ch. 295, § 1; 1937 (3rd Ex. Sess.), ch. 7, § 1; 1939, ch. 63, § 1; 1939, ch. 202, § 1; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 1238.1 (Williams, § 1213.4); Acts 1951, ch. 60, § 1 (Williams, § 1213.4b); modified; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; Acts 1963, ch. 34, § 1; 1965, ch. 118, § 2; 1967, ch. 98, § 2; 1969, ch. 250, §§ 1, 2, 5; 1971, ch. 58, § 1; 1972, ch. 457, § 1; 1976, ch. 440, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 67-3102; Acts 1985, ch. 179, § 6; 2002, ch. 856, §§ 1e, 1f; 2003, ch. 418, § 1; 2007, ch. 368, §§ 1, 2, 4. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2002, ch. 856, § 13 provided that no expenditure of public funds pursuant to that act shall be made in violation of the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2000 d. Cross-References. Compensation or discount inapplicable to enforcement and administration fee, § 67-4-1009 . Disposition of enforcement and administration fee, § 67-4-1025 . Law Reviews. Building a House of Cards: A Policy Evaluation of Tennessee's Tax Reform Act of 2002 with Emphasis on Fairness to the Poor (Robert F. Parsley), 70 Tenn. L. Rev. 1177 (2003).