(A) For the purpose of determining the amount of motor fuel user fees due, every supplier shall file with the department, on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, a verified statement by the supplier. The department may require the reporting of information reasonably necessary to determine the amount of motor fuel user fees due.

(B) The reports required by this article must be filed with respect to information for the preceding calendar month on or before the twenty-second day of the current month.

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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 12-28-1300

  • Bulk transfer: means a transfer of motor fuel from one location to another by pipeline tender or marine delivery within bulk transfer/terminal system. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Delivery: means the placing of motor fuel subject to the user fee or any liquid into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Department: means the South Carolina Department of Revenue. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Destination state: means the state, territory, or foreign country to which motor fuel is directed for delivery into a storage facility, a receptacle, a container, or a type of transportation equipment for the purpose of resale or use. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Diesel fuel: means a liquid, including biodiesel and a biodiesel blend that is commonly or commercially known or sold as a fuel that is suitable for use in a diesel-powered highway vehicle. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Distributor: means a person who acquires motor fuel from a supplier or from another distributor for subsequent sale or use. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Dyed diesel fuel: means diesel fuel that is required to be dyed under United States Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service rules or pursuant to other requirements subsequently set by the agency or service including any invisible marker requirements. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Export: means to obtain motor fuel in this State for sale or other distribution in another state. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Exporter: means a person, other than a supplier, who purchases motor fuel subject to the user fee in this State for the purpose of transporting or delivering the fuel to another state or country. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Heating oil: means a motor fuel subject to the user fee that is burned in a boiler, furnace, or stove for heating or industrial processing purposes. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Import: means to bring motor fuel into this State for sale, use, or storage by any means of conveyance other than in the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Motor fuel: means gasoline, diesel fuel, substitute fuel, renewable fuel, alternative fuel, and blended fuel. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Motor fuel subject to the user fee: means gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, blended fuel, substitute fuel, alternative fuel and blends of them and any other substance blended with them. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Permissive supplier: means a person who does not meet the geographic jurisdictional connections to this State required of a supplier as defined in § 12-28-920(A), but who:

    (a) is a position holder in a federally qualified terminal located outside this State; or

    (b) acquires a product in out-of-state terminals from a position holder in a transaction that otherwise qualifies as a two-party exchange under § 12-28-110(63); and under this subitem and subitem (a);

    (c) is registered under Section 4101 of the Internal Revenue Code for transactions in taxable motor fuels in the bulk transfer/terminal distribution system. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Person: means a natural person, a partnership, a firm, an association, a corporation, a representative appointed by a court, the State, a political subdivision or any other entity, group, or syndicate. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Removal: means a physical transfer other than by evaporation, loss, or destruction of motor fuel subject to the user fee from a terminal, manufacturing plant, customs custody, pipeline, marine vessel including barges and tankers, refinery, or any receptacle that stores motor fuel subject to the user fee. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Supplier: means a person who meets all the following conditions:

    (i) is subject to the general taxing jurisdiction of this State;

    (ii) is registered under Section 4101 of the Internal Revenue Code for transactions in taxable motor fuels in the bulk transfer/terminal distribution system; and

    (iii) is one of the following:

    1. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Terminal: is a storage and distribution facility for motor fuel subject to the user fee, supplied by pipeline or marine vessel, which has been registered as a qualified terminal by the Internal Revenue Service. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Ultimate vendor: means a person who sells motor fuel subject to the user fee to the user of the fuel, the ultimate purchaser. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.

(C) The supplier report required by this section must include the following information, with respect to billed gallons of motor fuel subject to the user fee, for all products in the aggregate, and the supplier shall identify if the billed gallon is net or gross:

(1) all shipments of motor fuel subject to the user fee removed from a terminal in this State as to which the user fee imposed by this chapter previously was paid or accrued for direct delivery outside this State by the exporter;

(2) removal of gallons of diesel fuel or heating oil from terminals in this State by the reporting supplier, user fee exempt, as to which dye has been added in accordance with Sections 12-28-710(9) and 12-28-785;

(3) removal of gallons of motor fuel from terminals in this State by the reporting supplier, user fee exempt, for export from this State by that supplier and as to which the proper motor fuel user fee for that other destination state has been collected or accrued by the reporting supplier at the time of removal from the terminal, sorted by state of destination;

(4) removal of gallons of motor fuel from terminals in this State by the reporting supplier, destination state user fee exempt, for export by the persons, sorted by state of destination under claim of destination state user fee exemption for an exempt use recognized by the department under § 12-28-710(1)(c);

(5) removal of gallons of motor fuel from terminals in this State by the reporting supplier, user fee exempt, for sale to exporters, for export by the persons, and as to which the proper motor fuel user fee for that other destination state has been collected or accrued by the reporting supplier at the time of removal from the terminal, sorted by state of destination;

(6) removal of gallons of motor fuel from terminals within this State for sale by the reporting supplier directly to the United States Government and its agencies or instrumentalities, or United States military posts;

(7) removal of gallons of motor fuel from terminals within this State for sale by the reporting supplier directly to end users other than the federal government, its agencies and instrumentalities, and United States military posts, for any other exempt use for which the end users properly have assigned refund claims to the ultimate vendor and each distributor in the chain including the reporting supplier;

(8) total removals in this State;

(9) removal of gallons of motor fuel from a terminal in another state by the reporting supplier, for sale to a licensed importer, user fee exempt, for import into this State by that licensed importer.

(10) removal of gallons of motor fuel from a terminal in another state by the reporting supplier for import other than by bulk transfer by that supplier into this State, or for sale by the reporting supplier to a person for import into this State by that person, and in either case, as to which this state’s user fee was accrued by the reporting supplier at the time of removal from the out-of-state terminal;

(11) removal of gallons of diesel fuel or heating oil from a terminal in another state by the reporting supplier, for import or for sale for import into this State, as to which dye has been added in accordance with Sections 12-28-710(9) and 12-28-785;

(12) total removals from out-of-state terminals with this State as the state of destination;

(13) corrections made by the supplier pursuant to § 12-28-1525 for changes in destination state which affect the supplier’s or his customer’s user fee liability to this State;

(14) gallons removed by the supplier from a terminal within or without this State and sold to another distributor for resale to an end user for an exempt purpose as to which a refund claim has been assigned by all parties to the supplier;

(15) other information which the department in its discretion determines is reasonably required to determine user fee liability under this chapter.

(D) Every licensed supplier or permissive supplier separately shall disclose and identify in a written statement to the department with the supplier or permissive supplier report any removal and sale from the bulk transfer/terminal system in another state by that supplier to a person other than a licensed supplier, permissive supplier, or importer of gallons of motor fuel subject to the user fee, other than diesel fuel dyed in accordance with Sections 12-28-710(9) and 12-28-785(1) which gallons are destined for this State, as shown by the terminal-issued shipping paper, and as to which gallons the user fee imposed by this chapter has not been collected or accrued by the supplier upon removal. A person who knowingly violates or knowingly aids or abets another to violate this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.

(E) Each supplier separately shall identify each sale of K-1 kerosene, other than dyed diesel fuel, sold free of user fees in accordance with reporting requirements established by the department.