Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 5, Sec. 33. (SB 1) Effective April 28, 2017.
(a)For the privilege of storing, for the purpose of sale, each supplier, wholesaler, and retailer owning 1,000 or more gallons of tax-paid diesel fuel on November 1, 2017, shall pay a storage tax of twenty cents ($0.20) per gallon of tax-paid diesel fuel in storage according to the volumetric measure thereof.
(b)For purposes of this section:
(1)“Owning” means having title to the diesel fuel.
(2)“Retailer” means any person who sells diesel fuel in this state to a person who subsequently uses the diesel fuel.
(3)“Storing” includes the ownership or possession of tax-paid diesel fuel outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system, including the holding of tax-paid diesel fuel for sale at wholesale or retail locations stored in a container of any kind, including railroad tank cars and trucks or trailer cargo tanks. “Storing” also includes tax-paid diesel fuel purchased from and invoiced by the seller, and tax-paid diesel fuel removed from a terminal or entered into by a supplier, prior to the date specified in subdivision (a) and in transit on that date.
(4)“Wholesaler” means any person who sells diesel fuel in this state for resale to a
retailer or to a person who is not a retailer and subsequently uses the diesel fuel.
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