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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 13. Cigarette Tax
Chapter 2. Imposition of Tax

Article 1. Tax on Distributors

Section 30104


30104. Common carrier of passengers. The taxes imposed by this part shall not apply to the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products by a distributor to a common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign passenger service or to a person authorized to sell cigarettes or tobacco products on the facilities of the carrier. Whenever cigarettes or tobacco products are sold by distributors to common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign passenger service for use or sale on facilities of the carriers, or to persons authorized to sell cigarettes or tobacco products on those facilities, the tax imposed under this part shall not be levied with respect to the sales of the cigarettes or tobacco products by the distributors, but a tax is hereby levied upon the carriers or upon the persons authorized to sell cigarettes or tobacco products on the facilities of the carriers, as the case may be, for the privilege of making sales in California at the same rate as set under this part. Those common carriers and authorized persons shall pay the tax imposed by this section and file reports with the board, as provided in Section 30186.

History—Stats. 1989, Ch. 634, in effect September 21, 1989, added "or tobacco products" after "cigarettes" and "and 30123" after "Section 30101" throughout the section, and substituted "Those" for "Such" in the last sentence. Stats. 2001, Ch. 251 (AB 1123), in effect January 1, 2002, substituted "the" for "such" after "the facilities of" in the first sentence; and added ", and 30131.2" after "the tax imposed by Section 30101 and 30123", deleted "such" after "the privilege of making", and added ", and 30131.2" after "set forth in Section 30101 and 30123" in the second sentence. Proposition 56, Section 5.2, approved by voters at the November 8, 2016 election, in effect November 9, 2016, substituted "under this part" for "by Section 30101 and 30123, and 30131" after "facilities, the tax imposed" and substituted "under this part" for "forth in Section 30101 and 30123, and 30131.2" after "at the same rate as set" in the second sentence.