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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 13. Cigarette Tax
Chapter 1. General Provisions and Definitions

Section 30008


30008. Distribution. "Distribution" includes:

(a) The sale of untaxed cigarettes or tobacco products in this state.

(b) The use or consumption of untaxed cigarettes or tobacco products in this state.

(c) The placing in this state of untaxed cigarettes or tobacco products in a vending machine or in retail stock for the purpose of selling the cigarettes or tobacco products to consumers.

History—Stats. 1961, p. 2499, operative July 1, 1961, combined and reworded former (a) and (c) as (a) and combined and reworded former (b) and (d) as (b). Stats. 1967, p. 2514, operative August 1, 1967, added (c). Stats. 1989, Ch. 634, in effect September 21, 1989, added "or tobacco products" after "cigarettes" in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).