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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7815

  • Commissioner: shall mean the Commissioner of Taxes. See
  • Dealer: means any wholesale dealer and retail dealer as herein defined. See
  • Person: shall mean any individual, firm, fiduciary, partnership, corporation, trust, or association, however formed. See
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
  • Wholesale dealer: means a person who imports or causes to be imported into the State any cigarettes, little cigars, roll-your-own tobacco, snuff, new smokeless tobacco, or other tobacco product for sale or who sells or furnishes any of these products to other wholesale dealers or retail dealers for the purpose of resale, but not by small quantity or parcel to consumers thereof. See

§ 7815. Licensed wholesale dealers

All resident licensed wholesale dealers within the State are required to pay the tax on tobacco products for which they may be liable. A person outside this State who ships or transports tobacco products to retailers in this State, to be sold by those retailers, may make application for license as a nonresident licensed wholesale dealer, be granted such license by the Commissioner, and thereafter be subject to all the provisions of this chapter so far as the same pertain to tobacco products, and be entitled to act as a licensed wholesale dealer, provided he or she files proof with his or her application that he or she has appointed the Secretary of State as his or her agent for service of process relating to any matter or issue arising under this chapter. Such nonresident person shall also agree to submit his or her books, accounts, and records to examination during reasonable business hours by the Commissioner or his or her duly authorized agent. (Added 1959, No. 231, § 7; amended 1981, No. 31, § 17; 2013, No. 14, § 20.)