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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69677</law_id><section_number>58.1-1021.02:2</section_number><catch_line>Records to be kept and reports by remote retail sellers of cigars and pipe tobacco</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="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Cigarette Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2.1">Tobacco Products Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Each <span class="dictionary">remote retail seller</span> that makes a <span class="dictionary">remote retail sale</span> of <span class="dictionary">cigars</span> and pipe <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">tobacco products</span></span> to any <span class="dictionary">consumer</span> located in the Commonwealth shall keep all records of <span class="dictionary">remote retail sales</span> as follows: (i) each <span class="dictionary">remote retail seller</span> that ships <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">tobacco products</span></span> to any <span class="dictionary">consumer</span> located in the Commonwealth shall file a report with the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> no later than the twentieth of each month identifying the total quantity, date, and dollar value of all such <span class="dictionary">remote retail sale</span> shipments made during the preceding month and (ii) every licensed <span class="dictionary">remote retail seller</span> outside the Commonwealth that is not a licensed <span class="dictionary">distributor</span> shall in a like manner file a return showing the quantity and <span class="dictionary">actual cost</span> of each <span class="dictionary">cigar</span> or pipe <span class="dictionary">tobacco product</span> shipped or transported to <span class="dictionary">consumers</span> in the Commonwealth during the preceding calendar month. The return shall be made on forms furnished or prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> and shall contain or be accompanied by such further information as the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall require. The <span class="dictionary">remote retail seller</span>, at the time of filing the return, shall pay to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> the tax imposed under subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Tax on tobacco products and liquid nicotine" href="/58.1-1021.02/">58.1-1021.02</a> for each such package sold in <span class="dictionary">remote retail sales</span> into the Commonwealth in the preceding month on which tax is due. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may allow such reports to be filed electronically.</p></section></text><history>2022, cc. 738, 779.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
