Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 149 - Cigarette Tax
Section 149.071 - Fraudulent activity relative to tax stamps a felony — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2021, 2 histories
149.071. Fraudulent activity relative to tax stamps a felony — penalty. — Any person who shall, without the authorization of the director of revenue, make or manufacture, or who shall falsely or fraudulently forge, counterfeit, reproduce, restore, or process any stamp, impression, copy, facsimile, or other evidence for the purpose of indicating the payment of the tax levied by this chapter, or who shall knowingly or by a deceptive act use or pass, or tender as true, or affix, impress, or imprint, by use of any device, rubber stamp or by any other means, or any package containing cigarettes, any unauthorized, false, altered, forged, counterfeit or previously used stamp, impressions, copies, facsimiles or other evidence of cigarette tax payment, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment by the state department of corrections for a term of not less than two years nor more than five years.
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(L. 1974 H.B. 1612 § 13, A.L. 2021 S.B. 26 merged with S.B. 53 & 60)

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title X - Taxation and Revenue

Chapter 149 - Cigarette Tax

Section 149.011 - Definitions.

Section 149.015 - Rate of tax — how stamped — samples, how taxed — tax impact to be on consumer — fair share school fund, distribution.

Section 149.021 - Compensation to wholesaler for affixing stamps — metering machines authorized.

Section 149.025 - Bond required for deferred payment on stamps — release from requirement, when — cash bond, deposit and refund — license revoked for delinquencies.

Section 149.031 - Refunds or exchange for stamps, when made.

Section 149.035 - Wholesaler's license required, fee — first sale of tobacco products, application required — revocation, suspension or refusal to issue, when — review.

Section 149.041 - Records to be kept — reports to be filed by wholesaler.

Section 149.045 - Common carriers and warehousemen, duties of — damaged cigarettes, how handled.

Section 149.051 - Failure to affix stamps, penalty — presumption that unstamped cigarettes are intended for sale.

Section 149.055 - Unstamped cigarettes seized, when — personal property used incident to such attempt to avoid tax to be forfeited, procedure.

Section 149.061 - Sales on military reservations taxable, exceptions — federal government exempt, when.

Section 149.065 - Revenue to fair share fund, health initiatives fund, and school moneys fund.

Section 149.071 - Fraudulent activity relative to tax stamps a felony — penalty.

Section 149.076 - Failure to make or falsification of required return or refusal to permit inspection of records prohibited — false report or application a felony, penalty.

Section 149.081 - Violation not otherwise specified a misdemeanor, penalty.

Section 149.082 - Additional tax — rate — collection — deposit — if federal excise tax reimposed, effect.

Section 149.160 - Tax upon first sale, rate, payment, credit — deposit of funds into health initiatives fund — contingent expiration.

Section 149.170 - Filing of return, remittance of amounts, required, when — rules — maintenance of records.

Section 149.180 - Rules and regulations, procedure.

Section 149.190 - Assessment by director, method — estimate by director, notice — failure to pay, penalty — purchase from wholesaler without license, penalty — sales to unlicensed retailers, penalty.

Section 149.192 - Preemption.

Section 149.200 - Illegal activities related to cigarettes and cigarette labeling — penalty.

Section 149.203 - Revocation or suspension of a wholesaler's license, when — civil penalty, when — cigarettes deemed contraband, when.

Section 149.206 - Violation deemed unlawful trade practice.

Section 149.212 - Director to enforce provisions of sections 149.200 to 149.215 — attorney general's concurrent power — injunctive relief available, when.

Section 149.215 - Severability clause.