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Tennessee Code Title 67. Taxes and Licenses § 67-4-1004

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The rate shall be three cents (3¢) on each cigarette.

(b) 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.

(c) 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.

(d)(1) 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.

(2) 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.

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