IA cigarette railway car bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Iowa requires a $500 bond for a cigarette permit to retail on railway cars, filed with the Department of Revenue under Iowa Code chapter 453A. At 3% the math is $15, but our minimum premium is $275, so that is your price. Five-minute application, no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Tobacco-tax permit bonds are about the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit-check section.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount permit bonds like this are among the thousands that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Department of Revenue
Your executed bond (form 70-031) arrives by email, ready to file with your cigarette permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$500 bond × 3% = $15, but our minimum premium is $275 — so $275 is the price, the same every term.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Iowa taxes and regulates cigarettes under Iowa Code chapter 453A, administered by the Department of Revenue. A permit to sell cigarettes at retail on railway cars requires a $500 bond — filed on the Department's cigarette/tobacco seller bond form (form 70-031).
The bond is a tax-and-compliance guarantee. It stands behind the permittee's payment of cigarette tax and compliance with chapter 453A, so the state is protected against unpaid tax on cigarettes sold from railway cars.
If a permittee holds more than one type of cigarette/tobacco permit, the Department's bond requirements are cumulative — a single bond can cover the aggregate. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays the state, you repay the surety.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit-check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Railway-car cigarette bond, issued today.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.