{"id":793,"date":"2013-04-04T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2017-01-03T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:20:38","slug":"illinois-cigarette-use-tax-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/illinois-cigarette-use-tax-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Cigarette Use Tax Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Cigarette Tax Act imposes a tax on the occupation of selling cigarettes at retail. \u00a0An <strong><a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois cigarette use tax bond<\/a><\/strong> is required of sellers to guarantee his or her obligations to the Department of Revenue. \u00a0Licensed distributors prepay the tax through the purchase of stamps, which are affixed (either heat-transferred or hand applied) to each cigarette package. The distributor collects the tax from the retailer at or before the time of sale. The retailer passes the tax on to the consumer in the cigarette sale price. \u00a0Illinois provides a convenient tax rate calculator on the DOR <a title=\"IL Cigarette Tax Calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/tax.illinois.gov\/Publications\/Sales\/SalesTaxRates\/FixedRatesExcise.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. \u00a0A cigarette distributor must provide the <strong>Illinois cigarette tax bond<\/strong> in form\u00a0REG-4-A, <strong>Financial Responsibility Bond<\/strong>\u00a0in the amount of $2,500. \u00a0A cigarette seller must provide the <strong>Illinois cigarette use tax bond<\/strong> on the same form however the amount can be as low as $1,000 as determined by the <a title=\"IL DoR cig tax page\" href=\"http:\/\/tax.illinois.gov\/Businesses\/TaxInformation\/Excise\/cigarette.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Revenue<\/a>. \u00a0The bond obligation is a strict financial guarantee, ensuring that the distributor will pay to the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) all amounts becoming due from the distributor under this Act. \u00a0The\u00a0<strong>Illinois surety leader<\/strong>,\u00a0<a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surety One, Inc.<\/a>, will issue cigarette and tobacco distributor tax bonds for all applicants regardless of credit condition. Visit us at\u00a0<a title=\"Surety One\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuretyOne.com<\/a>, call\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(787) 333-0222<\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(800) 373-2804<\/span>, or email\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Underwriting@SuretyOne.com<\/span>, for a\u00a0<strong>Illinois cigarette use tax bond\u00a0<\/strong>application or information about any surety bond need. \u00a0We bond in EVERY state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Cigarette Tax Act imposes a tax on the occupation of selling cigarettes at retail. \u00a0An Illinois cigarette use tax bond is required of sellers to guarantee his or her obligations to the Department of Revenue. \u00a0Licensed distributors prepay&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/illinois-cigarette-use-tax-bond\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194],"tags":[966,965,964,967],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Cigarette Use Tax Bond &bull; Surety One, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/suretyone.com\/blog\/illinois-cigarette-use-tax-bond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Illinois Cigarette Use Tax Bond &bull; Surety One, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Illinois Cigarette Tax Act imposes a tax on the occupation of selling cigarettes at retail. \u00a0An Illinois cigarette use tax bond is required of sellers to guarantee his or her obligations to the Department of Revenue. \u00a0Licensed distributors prepay... 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