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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79377</law_id><section_number>4.1-239</section_number><catch_line>Monthly reports and payment of excise tax on beer and wine coolers; filing by nonresident manufacturer; commissions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="4.1">Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Alcoholic Beverage Control Act</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Administration of Licenses</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Applications for Licenses and Permits; Fees; Taxes</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> On or before the tenth day of each month, each manufacturer, bottler, wholesaler or other person selling <span class="dictionary">beer</span> or <span class="dictionary">wine coolers</span> in the Commonwealth who is chargeable with the payment of excise taxes imposed by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Excise tax on beer and wine coolers; payment of tax; exceptions" href="/4.1-236/">4.1-236</a> shall file a report under <span class="dictionary">oath</span> with the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, on forms prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, showing the quantity of all <span class="dictionary">beer</span> and <span class="dictionary">wine coolers</span> manufactured, bottled or sold by such person during the preceding calendar months. Such report shall also contain any other information the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may require. Common carriers of passengers by train or boat <span class="dictionary">licensed</span> to <span class="dictionary">sell</span> <span class="dictionary">beer</span> or <span class="dictionary">wine coolers</span> in dining cars, buffet cars, <span class="dictionary">club</span> cars or on such boats shall have thirty days from the end of each calendar month to file such reports. At the time of filing, such person shall pay the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> all excise taxes chargeable against him under the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Excise tax on beer and wine coolers; payment of tax; exceptions" href="/4.1-236/">4.1-236</a>, unless the taxes have been previously paid. <a id="paragraph-284162" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/4.1-239/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In addition to the requirements of subsection A, on or before the fifteenth day of each month each nonresident manufacturer shall forward a copy of each invoice required by <span class="dictionary">Board</span> regulation or a listing of all such invoices for the preceding month to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> as a condition of shipment into or doing business in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-284163" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/4.1-239/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any person filing the report required by this section and paying such excise tax required by subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Excise tax on beer and wine coolers; payment of tax; exceptions" href="/4.1-236/">4.1-236</a> shall be allowed a commission of one percent of the amount of tax due as compensation for the expense of maintaining records and preparing reports so as to account for and remit the tax levied by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Excise tax on beer and wine coolers; payment of tax; exceptions" href="/4.1-236/">4.1-236</a>. Such commission shall also be allowed as compensation for the expense, if any, of compliance with the requirements of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Bond required to secure excise tax liability on beer and wine coolers, and wine stored in bonded warehouses" href="/4.1-238/">4.1-238</a>. Such commission shall be accounted for in the form of a deduction from the amount of tax which would otherwise be due. <a id="paragraph-284164" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/4.1-239/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1988, c. 261, &#xA7;&#xA7; 4-131, 4-132, 4-133; 1993, c. 866.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
