452A.85  Tax payment for stored motor fuel, ethanol blended gasoline, special fuel, compressed natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas--penalty.

1.  Persons having title to motor fuel, ethanol blended gasoline, undyed special fuel, compressed natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas in storage and held for sale on the effective date of an increase in the excise tax rate imposed on motor fuel, ethanol blended gasoline, undyed special fuel, compressed natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas under this chapter shall be subject to an inventory tax based upon the gallonage in storage as of the close of the business day preceding the effective date of the increased excise tax rate of motor fuel, ethanol blended gasoline, undyed special fuel, compressed natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas which will be subject to the increased excise tax rate.

2.  Persons subject to the tax imposed under this section shall take an inventory to determine the gallonage in storage for purposes of determining the tax and shall report the gallonage and pay the tax due within thirty days of the prescribed inventory date. The department of revenue and finance shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A as are necessary to administer this section.

3.  The amount of the inventory tax is equal to the inventory tax rate times the gallonage in storage as determined under subsection 1. The inventory tax rate is equal to the difference of the increased excise tax rate less the previous excise tax rate.

Section History: Early form

  [C81, § 324.85]

Section History: Recent form

  91 Acts, ch 87, §10

  C93, § 452A.85

  95 Acts, ch 155, §40, 44


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