New Jersey Statutes 54:40A-7. Reports required; penalty required for not filing reports
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:40A-7
- month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
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.