54:40A-47 Findings, declarations relative to out-of-State cigarette sales.
2. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
a. Currently, the federal Jenkins Act, 15 U.S.C. s.375 et seq., requires any person that sells or transfers in interstate commerce cigarettes into a state that taxes the sale or use of cigarettes to file certain information with the tobacco tax administrator of that state; and
b. According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, the Jenkins Act is rarely enforced by the federal government and is currently unenforceable by the states; and
c. As the sales of cigarettes to residents of this State by out-of-State sellers increase and the difficulties associated with the collection of sales and use taxes continue, there will be a steady erosion of the sales and use tax revenues that this State is able to collect;
d. It is, therefore, the purpose of this act to facilitate the collection of all applicable sales and use taxes on cigarettes sold to residents of this State and to enforce the Jenkins Act.
L.2005,c.85,s.2.
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