IL cigarette machine bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
A cigarette machine operator runs the roll-your-own machines that let customers make their own cigarettes — and Illinois treats that operator as a cigarette manufacturer for tax. The Department of Revenue requires a tax bond under the Cigarette Machine Operators’ Occupation Tax Act. We issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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No underwriting queue for the standard cigarette machine bond — enter your amount, pay, and file. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount the Department requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check and no waiting — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick review.
File with the Department of Revenue
Submit the executed bond with your cigarette machine operator license application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the amount the Department requires and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the cigarette machine bond actually covers
A cigarette machine operator makes commercial roll-your-own machines available at retail so customers can produce cigarettes from loose tobacco. Illinois treats that operation as cigarette manufacturing and imposes an occupation tax under the Cigarette Machine Operators’ Occupation Tax Act (35 ILCS 128).
Because tax is owed on what those machines produce, the Department of Revenue requires the operator to post a financial-responsibility bond backing that tax — much like other cigarette and tobacco distributors who file bonds with the Department.
The bond guarantees the occupation tax gets paid. If the operator fails to remit, the Department can recover against the bond, and if the surety pays, the operator repays the surety. Enter the amount the Department named on your license paperwork and we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with your required bond amount — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with the Department of Revenue.
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Cigarette machine bond, issued today.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter your required amount and file with the Department of Revenue the same day.