A. At the close of business on the day prior to any date on which the cigarette tax imposed by Section 7-12-3 NMSA 1978 is increased, each distributor shall take inventory of tax-exempt stamps, tax-credit stamps and tax stamps on hand, including stamps affixed to packages of cigarettes.
B. Each distributor shall report the total number of tax-exempt stamps, tax-credit stamps and tax stamps in inventory at the close of business on the day prior to the date on which the cigarette tax increases and pay the cigarette inventory tax due.
History: 1978 Comp., § 7-12-3.2, enacted by Laws 1986, ch. 13, § 4; 2006, ch. 91, § 3; 2010 (2nd S.S.), ch. 5, § 5.
The 2010 (2nd S. S.) amendment, effective July 1, 2010, in Subsection A, at the beginning of the sentence, deleted "On" and added "At the close of business on the day prior to" and after "inventory of tax-exempt stamps", added "tax-credit stamps"; and in Subsection B, after "number of tax-exempt stamps", added "tax-credit stamps" and after "tax stamps in inventory", deleted "on" and added "at the close of business on the day prior to".
The 2006 amendment, effective May 17, 2006, in Subsection A, provided that the distributor shall take an inventory of tax-exempt stamps and tax stamps; and in Subsection B, provided that the distributor shall report the number of tax-exempt stamps and tax stamps.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 7-12-1 - Cigarette Tax Act; short title.
Section 7-12-3 - Excise tax on cigarettes; reduction of rate for certain cigarettes.
Section 7-12-3.1 - Cigarette inventory tax; imposition of tax; date payment of tax due.
Section 7-12-3.2 - Cigarette inventories.
Section 7-12-4.1 - Cigarette tax; tribal sales; tax-credit stamps.
Section 7-12-5 - Affixing stamps.
Section 7-12-6 - Waiver of requirement that stamps be affixed.
Section 7-12-7 - Sale of stamps; prices.
Section 7-12-8 - Redemption of stamps.
Section 7-12-9.1 - Licensing; general licensing provisions.
Section 7-12-9.2 - Distributor's license.
Section 7-12-9.3 - Manufacturer's license.
Section 7-12-9.4 - Retail sale of cigarettes.
Section 7-12-10.1 - Retention of invoices and records; inspection by department.
Section 7-12-11 - Export sellers; physical segregation of cigarettes to be exported.
Section 7-12-12 - Shipment of unstamped cigarettes in New Mexico.
Section 7-12-13.1 - Civil penalties.
Section 7-12-13.2 - Criminal offenses; criminal penalties; seizure and destruction of evidence.
Section 7-12-15 - County and municipality recreational fund; distribution.
Section 7-12-16 - County and municipal cigarette tax fund; distribution.
Section 7-12-17 - Reporting requirements; penalty.
Section 7-12-19 - Intergovernmental agreements; no waiver of sovereign immunity.