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Tennessee Code Title 67. Taxes and Licenses § 67-4-1011

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

(a)(1) The commissioner is authorized and empowered to prescribe the methods to be used by dealers and distributors in recording purchases and sales of tobacco products and purchases and consumption of tobacco tax stamps.

(2) The commissioner is further authorized and empowered to require persons selling, distributing, or dealing in tobacco products to file such reports with the department in the manner and at such times as the commissioner may deem necessary in carrying out this part.

(b) In any case where a person cannot produce evidence of sufficient stamps purchased or other payment of the tax imposed to cover all of any tobacco products received, it may be assumed that such products were disposed of without having either the proper stamps affixed or the tax paid on the tobacco products.

(c)(1) Every common carrier transporting cigars, cigarettes, manufactured tobacco or snuff in this state shall keep a complete record of all tobacco products handled in each transaction, separately, and shall show the transportation of such tobacco products, both interstate and intrastate.

(2) Every common carrier in this state shall give and permit the commissioner free access to such books and records, and furnish such information and reports as the commissioner may require.

(3) Any person violating this subsection (c) commits a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) A cigarette rolling machine operator must keep records both of tobacco sold for use in the operator's cigarette rolling machine and of any cigarettes made from such tobacco through use of the cigarette rolling machine.

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