Sections 402 to 402-1 - Rates - Apportionment. A. In addition to the tax levied in Sections 402 and 402-1 of this title, effective January 1, 2005, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid in respect to the articles containing tobacco enumerated in Section 401 et seq. of this title, a tax in the following amounts: 1. Cigars. Upon all cigars of all descriptions made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing more than three (3) pounds per thousand, Ninety Dollars ($90.00) per thousand. For the purpose of computing the tax, cheroots, stogies, etc., are hereby classed as cigars; 2. Smoking Tobacco. Upon all smoking tobacco, the tax shall be forty percent (40%) of the factory list price exclusive of any trade discount, special discount or deals; and 3. Smokeless Tobacco. Upon smokeless tobacco, the tax shall be thirty percent (30%) of the factory list price exclusive of any trade discount, special discount or deals. B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section, the revenue resulting from the additional tax levied in subsection A of this section shall be apportioned by the Oklahoma Tax Commission and transmitted to the State Treasurer as follows: 1. Twenty-two and six-hundredths percent (22.06%) shall be placed to the credit of the Health Employee and Economy Improvement Act Revolving Fund created in Section 1010.1 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 2. Three and nine-hundredths percent (3.09%) shall be placed to the credit of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Debt Service Revolving Fund created in Section 160.1 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 3. Before July 1, 2008, seven and fifty-hundredths percent (7.50%) shall be placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund created in Section 1-2530.9 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes. On and after July 1, 2008, seven and fifty- hundredths percent (7.50%) shall be allocated as follows: a. every month, an amount equal to the actual amount placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund pursuant to this paragraph for the same month of the 2008 fiscal year shall be credited to the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund, b. every month, any amount over and above the amount placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund pursuant to subparagraph a of this paragraph shall be credited to the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund as created in Section 1-2512.1 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes until the combined amount credited to the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund pursuant to this section and Section 302-5 of this title is equal to Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) each year, and c. any additional revenue allocated pursuant to this paragraph shall be placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund; 4. Three and nine-hundredths percent (3.09%) shall be placed to the credit of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Revolving Fund created in Section 160.2 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 5. Twenty-six and thirty-eight-hundredths percent (26.38%) shall be placed to the credit of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Medicaid Program Fund created in Section 5020 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the purposes of maintaining programs and services funded under the federal "Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003", reimbursing city/county-owned hospitals, increasing emergency room physician rates, and providing TEFRA 134, also known as "Katie Beckett" services; 6. Two and sixty-five-hundredths percent (2.65%) shall be placed to the credit of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Revolving Fund created in Section 2-303 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes; 7. Forty-four-hundredths of one percent (0.44%) shall be placed to the credit of the Belle Maxine Hilliard Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Revolving Fund created in Section 1-559 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 8. One percent (1%) shall be placed to the credit of the Teachers' Retirement System Revolving Fund created in Section 158 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 9. Two and seven-hundredths percent (2.07%) shall be placed to the credit of the Education Reform Revolving Fund created in Section 34.89 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 10. Sixty-six-hundredths percent (0.66%) shall be placed to the credit of the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Revolving Fund created in Section 1-105d of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 11. Sixteen and eighty-three-hundredths percent (16.83%) shall be placed to the credit of the General Revenue Fund; and 12. For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2004, and ending June 30, 2006, fourteen and twenty-three-hundredths percent (14.23%) shall be apportioned to municipalities and counties that levy a sales tax, in the proportions which total municipal and county sales tax revenue was apportioned by the Tax Commission in the preceding month. For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2006, and thereafter, the apportionment percentage specified in paragraph 12 of this subsection will be adjusted by dividing the total municipal and county sales tax revenue collected in the calendar year immediately preceding the commencement of the fiscal year by the sum of the state sales tax revenue and total municipal and county sales tax revenue collected in the same year. This ratio shall be divided by the ratio of the total municipal and county sales tax revenue collected in the calendar year beginning January 1, 2004, and ending December 31, 2004, divided by the sum of the state sales tax revenue and total municipal and county sales tax revenue collected in the same year. The resulting quotient shall be multiplied by fourteen and twenty-three-hundredths percent (14.23%) to determine the apportionment percentage for the fiscal year. For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2006, and thereafter, any adjustment to the percentage of revenues apportioned to municipalities and counties shall be reflected in the percent of revenues apportioned to the General Revenue Fund. C. The net amount of any revenue resulting from a payment in lieu of excise taxes on little cigars, cigars, smoking tobacco and smokeless tobacco levied by this section, pursuant to a compact with a federally recognized Indian tribe or nation after deductions for deposits into trust accounts pursuant to such compacts, shall be apportioned by the Tax Commission and transmitted to the State Treasurer as follows: 1. Thirty-three and forty-nine-hundredths percent (33.49%) shall be placed to the credit of the Health Employee and Economy Improvement Act Revolving Fund created in Section 1010.1 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 2. Four and sixty-nine-hundredths percent (4.69%) shall be placed to the credit of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Debt Service Revolving Fund created in Section 160.1 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 3. Before July 1, 2008, eleven and thirty-nine-hundredths percent (11.39%) shall be placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund created in Section 1-2530.9 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes. On and after July 1, 2008, eleven and thirty-nine-hundredths percent (11.39%) shall be allocated as follows: a. every month, an amount equal to the actual amount placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund pursuant to this paragraph for the same month of the 2008 fiscal year shall be credited to the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund, b. every month, any amount over and above the amount placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund pursuant to subparagraph a of this paragraph shall be credited to the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund as created in Section 1-2512.1 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes until the combined amount credited to the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund pursuant to this section and Section 302-5 of this title is equal to Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) each year, and c. any additional revenue allocated pursuant to this paragraph shall be placed to the credit of the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund; 4. Four and sixty-nine-hundredths percent (4.69%) shall be placed to the credit of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Revolving Fund created in Section 160.2 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 5. Forty and six-hundredths percent (40.06%) shall be placed to the credit of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Medicaid Program Fund created in Section 5020 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the purposes of maintaining programs and services funded under the federal "Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003", reimbursing city/county-owned hospitals, increasing emergency room physician rates, and providing TEFRA 134, also known as "Katie Beckett" services; 6. Four and one-hundredths percent (4.01%) shall be placed to the credit of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Revolving Fund created in Section 2-303 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes; 7. Sixty-seven-hundredths percent (0.67%) shall be placed to the credit of the Belle Maxine Hilliard Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Revolving Fund created in Section 1-559 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and 8. One percent (1%) shall be placed to the credit of the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Revolving Fund created in Section 1-105d of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes. D. It shall not be permissible for a retailer to advertise that the retailer will absorb the tax due on the taxable merchandise described herein. Such tax shall be paid by the consumer. Added by Laws 2004, c. 322, § 10, eff. Dec. 1, 2004 (State Question No. 713, Legislative Referendum No. 336, adopted at election held Nov. 2, 2004). Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2018, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 8, § 5; Laws 2021, c. 526, § 4, eff. July 1, 2021.
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