Title 12, Taxation

A terminal operator in this State and every supplier licensed by this State for the collection of user fees on motor fuel subject to the user fee shall cause terminal-issued shipping papers to meet tamper-resistant standards the department by regulation may require including mess…

No person may operate a tank wagon in this State unless that tank wagon first is registered under IFTA for use on the highways of this State and has displayed on the vehicle an IFTA sticker designating the vehicle for use in this State. However, a vehicle licensed in this State a…

(A) No person may sell or hold for sale dyed diesel fuel for any use that the person knows or has reason to know is not a use of the diesel fuel not subject to the user fee. (B) No person may use or hold for use dyed diesel fuel for a use other than a use not subject to the user …

No person, wilfully with intent to evade user fees, may alter or attempt to alter the strength or composition of a dye or marker in dyed diesel fuel.

A business entity and its officers, employees, and agents who wilfully participate in an act in violation of Section 12-28-1595 or Section 12-28-1597 are jointly and severally liable with the entity for the penalty which is the same as imposed under federal law.

(A) A supplier, a permissive supplier, or an importer who knowingly fails to collect and timely remit user fees otherwise required to be paid over to the department pursuant to Section 12-28-905 or 12-28-915 pursuant to a user fee precollection agreement under Section 12-28-910 i…

(A) If a person liable for the user fee files a false or fraudulent return, there is added to the user fee an amount as provided in Section 12-54-43(G)(1). (B) The department shall impose a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for a person's first occurrence of transporting moto…

If a person is found operating a motor vehicle in violation of the shipping paper requirements in Sections 12-28-1505, 12-28-1540, 12-28-1545, and 12-28-1575, the vehicle and its cargo are subject to impoundment, seizure, and subsequent sale and forfeiture, in accordance with the…

(A) The department or its appointees including federal government employees or persons operating under contract with the State, upon presenting appropriate credentials, may conduct inspections and remove samples of fuel from a vehicle, tank, or another container to determine colo…

The department may assign qualified persons who are not state police officers to supervise or operate permanent or portable weigh stations. A person assigned under this section may stop, inspect, and issue citations to operators of trucks and trailers, barges or vessels having a …

(A) The department or an authorized deputy, employee, or agent may audit and examine the records, books, papers, and equipment of terminal suppliers, importers, wholesalers, jobbers, retail dealers, terminal operators, fuel vendors, and all private and common carriers of motor fu…

(A) A person who refuses to permit an inspection or audit authorized by this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of five thousand dollars in addition to any penalty imposed by other provisions of this chapter. (B) A person who refuses, for the purpose of evading user fees, to a…

The department must collect the user fee imposed by this chapter on motor fuels subject to the user fee consumed on the highways by state and local government diesel and other federally exempt fuel-powered highway vehicles, to be collected and administered in accordance with Sect…

"Petroleum" or "petroleum product" as used in this article means gasoline, gasohol, kerosene, diesel fuels, jet fuels, fuel oil No. 1 through 4, or like product of petroleum, or a product which may be susceptible for use as petroleum products under whatever name called.

The department shall appoint analysts, chemists, and inspectors required to carry out this article. The inspectors may examine all barrels, tanks, or other vessels containing petroleum or petroleum products to see that they are tagged properly as required in this article and, as …

Any inspector who, while in office, is interested, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or vending of any gasoline or illuminating or heating oil is subject to the provisions of Section 12-58-110.

The Department of Public Safety and law enforcement agents, upon request of the Department of Revenue, may assist in the enforcement of all laws relating to the inspection of petroleum products.

All manufacturers, wholesalers, and jobbers, before selling or offering for sale in this State any petroleum product shall file with the department a statement that they desire to do business in the State and furnish the name or brand of the product which they desire to sell, wit…

When petroleum products are shipped into this State, the manufacturer or jobber shall give notice to the department of every shipment in invoiced gallons with the name and gallons on the day shipment is made. The department may waive this requirement in part or in full as to any …

The Commissioner of Agriculture may promulgate regulations prescribing standards for petroleum products and methods for testing them.

A person who sells or offers for sale a petroleum product shall keep an accurate record of all lots of shipments of the product received by him and the products shipped by him. All delivery manifests, original and copies, shall show actual destination of products before they leav…

The department may inspect all records of a person doing business in this State for the purpose of ascertaining information relative to the sales, transportation, or possession of petroleum products. Legible records must be kept at the point of origin or reasonable approved proxi…

(A) For the purpose of providing funds for inspecting, testing, and analyzing petroleum products and for general state purposes, there must be paid to the department a charge of one-fourth cent a gallon, which liability arises at the same time and is payable by the same person as…

A person may present to the department proof that he has paid an inspection fee on petroleum products in error or has paid an inspection fee on shipments of petroleum products subsequently diverted from the State, whereupon the department shall refund the amount of the inspection…

Fees must be remitted at the same time and on the same return as user fees imposed under Section 12-28-310, and all monies received under this section must be paid into the State Treasury as provided for in Section 12-28-2355(A) and (B). The monies must be turned over monthly by …

The department may promulgate regulations necessary for carrying out the provisions of this article.

The provisions of this article do not apply to a retail dealer in petroleum products, unless the retail dealer sells or offers to sell petroleum products of a manufacturer, wholesaler, or jobber who refuses to comply with the provisions of this article.

All motor fuels placed into motor vehicles for use in their operation or for the operation of their parts or attachments are subject to the fees provided in this article. This section does not apply to a seller-user of liquefied petroleum gas.

Exports of petroleum products are exempt from the inspection fee imposed by Section 12-28-2355. The export exemption applicable to the inspection fee on motor fuel subject to the user fee must be perfected in the same manner as the export exemption for motor fuel subject to the u…

A motor fuel licensee may furnish the department with a statement of assets and liabilities, and if in the judgment of the department the property owned by the motor fuel licensee is sufficient to protect the State in the payment of all motor fuel user fees due, a bond is not req…

All monies collected by the department under this chapter must be deposited to the credit of the State Treasurer as taxes collected by the department.

The proceeds from ten and thirty-four hundredths cents a gallon of the user fee on gasoline only as levied and provided for in this chapter must be turned over to the Department of Transportation for the purpose of that department.

Of the ten and thirty-four hundredths cents user fee on gasoline imposed pursuant to this chapter, an amount equal to twenty- five hundredths of a cent on each gallon must be used by the department for mass transit. The State Auditor annually shall audit, or cause to be audited, …

(A) One percent of the proceeds from thirteen cents of the gasoline user fee imposed pursuant to this chapter must be transmitted to the Department of Natural Resources for a special water recreational resources fund of the State. All balances in the fund must be carried forward …

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 12-28-2740 effective until July 1, 2027. (A) The proceeds from three and ninety-nine one-hundredths cents a gallon of the user fee on gasoline only as levied and provided for in this chapter must be deposited with the State Treas…

Subject to the provisions of Section 12-28-2910, the remainder of the proceeds from the gasoline and fuel user fees levied and provided for in this chapter must be remitted to the State Highway Fund.

(A) The first eighteen million dollars generated from three cents of the user fee levied in this chapter must be segregated in a separate account for economic development. This account may be expended only upon the authorization of the South Carolina Coordinating Council for Econ…

(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, seven million dollars of the taxes collected pursuant to Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 12 must be placed in the account for economic development contained in Section 12-28-2910 for fiscal year 2005-2006, fourteen million dollars for fi…

Section effective July 1, 2027. See, also, section 12-28-2920 effective until July 1, 2027. The department shall review projects for the possibility of constructing roads financed with usage charges pursuant to the authority granted the department in Article 9, Chapter 5, Title 5…

(A)(1) Of total state source highway funds, including revenues generated by Section 12-28-2740, expended in a fiscal year on highway, bridge, and building construction, and building renovation contracts, the Department of Transportation and counties shall ensure that not less tha…

Acquisitions by the Department of Transportation under the "C" Fund program are exempt from the requirements of all appraisal provisions of Title 28, Chapter 2 (Sections 28-2-10 et seq.), and Sections 1-11-110, 3-5-50, 3-5-100, 3-5-330, 4-17-20, 5-27-150, 5-31-420, 5-31-430, 5-31…

(A) Subject to the exemptions provided in this chapter, a user fee of sixteen cents a gallon is imposed on: (1) all gasoline, gasohol, or blended fuels containing gasoline that are used or consumed for any purpose in this State; and (2) all diesel fuel, substitute fuels, or alter…

Except as otherwise provided under Article 7 of this chapter, the department shall consider it a presumption that all motor fuel subject to the user fee delivered in this State into a motor vehicle fuel supply tank is to be used or consumed on the highways in this State producing…

The department considers it a rebuttable presumption, subject to proof of exemption pursuant to Article 7 of this chapter, that all motor fuel subject to the user fee removed from a terminal in this State, or imported into this State other than by a bulk transfer within the bulk …

(A) Regardless of other products offered, a terminal, as defined in Section 12-28-110(56), located within the State must offer a petroleum product that has not been blended with ethanol and that is suitable for subsequent blending with ethanol. (B) A person or entity must not tak…

A retailer that sells motor fuel whose business location changes from South Carolina to North Carolina as a result of the boundary clarification, as contained in the amendments to Section 1-1-10, effective January 1, 2017, is allowed a refund of South Carolina motor fuel taxes or…