An excise tax is hereby imposed on the storage, use or other consumption in this Commonwealth of cigarettes purchased at retail in an amount equal to that set out in § 58.1-1001. Every person storing, using or otherwise consuming in this Commonwealth cigarettes purchased at retail shall be liable for the tax imposed by this article, and the liability shall not be extinguished until the tax has been paid to this Commonwealth; however, if such cigarettes have attached thereto the requisite stamps or if the excise tax imposed by Article 1 (§ 58.1-1000 et seq.) has been paid by the seller of such cigarettes, then the tax imposed by this article shall not be due.
The revenues generated by the tax imposed under this section on and after August 1, 2004, shall be collected by the Department and deposited into the Virginia Health Care Fund established under § 32.1-366.
Code 1950, § 58-757.19; 1960, c. 392, § 19; 1984, c. 675; 2004, Sp. Sess. I, c. 3.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 58.1-1003. How paid; affixing of stamps; records of stamping agents; civil penalties
§ 58.1-1003.1. Bad debt; deduction; definition
§ 58.1-1003.3. Roll-your-own cigarette machines
§ 58.1-1008. Monthly reports of stamping agents; penalty
§ 58.1-1008.1. Monthly reports of tobacco product manufacturers
§ 58.1-1008.2. Materially false statements in reports
§ 58.1-1010. Sale of unstamped cigarettes by wholesale dealers; penalty
§ 58.1-1011. Qualification for permit to affix Virginia revenue stamps; penalty
§ 58.1-1013. Penalty for failing to affix stamps; subsequent violations of article
§ 58.1-1016. Administration and enforcement of tax
§ 58.1-1017. Sale, purchase, possession, etc., of cigarettes for purpose of evading tax; penalties
§ 58.1-1017.1. Possession with intent to distribute tax-paid, contraband cigarettes; penalties
§ 58.1-1017.2. Sealed pack labeled as cigarettes; prima facie evidence of cigarettes
§ 58.1-1017.3. Fraudulent purchase of cigarettes; penalties
§ 58.1-1017.4. Documents to be provided at purchase
§ 58.1-1019. Monthly returns and payment of tax
§ 58.1-1020. Assessment of tax by Department
§ 58.1-1021.02. Tax on tobacco products
§ 58.1-1021.02:1. Reports by manufacturers of tobacco products
§ 58.1-1021.02:2. Records to be kept and reports by remote retail sellers of cigars and pipe tobacco
§ 58.1-1021.03. Monthly return and payments of tax
§ 58.1-1021.04. Failure to file return; fraudulent return; penalties; interest; overpayment of tax
§ 58.1-1021.04:1. Distributor's or remote retail seller's license; penalty
§ 58.1-1021.04:2. Certain records required of distributor; access to premises
§ 58.1-1021.04:4. Purchase of tobacco products for resale
§ 58.1-1021.04:5. Tax Commissioner to establish guidelines and rules
§ 58.1-1021.05. Use of revenues