(A) Any licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier may make a blanket election with the department to treat all removals from all of its out-of-state terminals with a destination in this State as shown on the terminal issued shipping paper as if the removals were removed across the rack by the supplier from a terminal in this State for all purposes.

(B) This election must be made by filing "notice of election" with the department as provided in this section.

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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 12-28-910

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Position holder: means the person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel in a terminal, as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Qualified terminal: means a qualified terminal as defined under Internal Revenue Code, regulation, and practices and which has been assigned a terminal control number by the Internal Revenue Service. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110
  • Rack: means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, a terminal, or a bulk plant into a railroad tank car, a transport truck, or another means of bulk transfer outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system. 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
  • Two-party exchange: means a transaction in which a product is transferred from one licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier to another pursuant to an exchange agreement. See South Carolina Code 12-28-110

(C) The department shall release a list of electing suppliers under subsection (B) upon request by any person.

(D) The absence of an election by a supplier under this section does not relieve the supplier of responsibility for remitting the user fee imposed by this chapter upon the removal from an out-of-state terminal for import into this State by the supplier.

(E) A supplier which makes the election provided by this section shall pre-collect the user fee imposed by this chapter on all removals from a qualified terminal on its account as a position holder or a person receiving fuel from a position holder pursuant to a two-party exchange agreement without regard to the license status of the person acquiring the fuel from the supplier, the point or terms of sale, or the character of delivery.