54:40A-7 Reports required; penalty required for not filing reports.
205. Every licensed distributor shall file with the director on or before the twentieth day of each month, a report in such form as the director shall prescribe, which report shall disclose the number of cigarettes on hand by brand family, as defined pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2003, c.25 (C.52:4D-5), on the first and last days of the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which such report is required; together with the quantity, by brand family, of cigarettes purchased or sold during the report period, and such information concerning the amount of stamps purchased, used, and on hand during the report period; together with any other information for the report period that the director shall prescribe.
Every licensed manufacturer shall file with the director on or before the twentieth day of each month, a report in such form as the director shall prescribe, which report shall disclose the number of cigarettes sold, subject to the cigarette tax, for the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which such report is required; together with any other information for the report period that the director shall prescribe.
Every licensed manufacturer's representative, wholesale and retail dealer, upon notice from the director, shall file with the director a report in such form, and on such dates, as the director shall prescribe.
Every licensed consumer who has acquired cigarettes for use, storage or consumption subject to the tax shall, on or before the twentieth day of the month following receipt of such cigarettes, complete and file with the director, in such form as the director shall prescribe, a report showing the amount of cigarettes so received. Said report shall be accompanied by a remittance for the full amount of the tax due.
Any person, other than a licensed distributor, who transports unstamped cigarettes upon the public highways, roads, or streets of this State or who stores unstamped cigarettes in this State upon notice from the director, shall file with the director a report in such form, and on such dates, as the director shall prescribe.
Any person who shall fail to file any report on the day when it shall be due, shall forfeit as a penalty, an amount as provided in the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law, subtitle 9 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes. The director, if satisfied that the failure to comply with any provision of this section was excusable, may remit the whole or any part of said penalty.
L.1948, c.65, s.205; amended 1963, c.32; 1968, c.351, s.4; 1975, c.177, s.34; 2013, c.145, s.2.
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