SC tobacco tax bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
The bond a South Carolina tobacco distributor posts with the Department of Revenue to buy cigarette tax stamps on 30-day credit. The amount tracks your stamp volume — and we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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No underwriting queue for the standard tobacco bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the Department of Revenue. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount your stamp volume 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 to set up your 30-day stamp credit with the Department of Revenue. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists on them.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter 110% of your 30-day liability and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the tobacco bond actually covers
South Carolina taxes cigarettes and other tobacco products under S.C. Code Title 12, Chapter 21, administered by the Department of Revenue. As of January 1, 2019, a bond is not required simply to hold a cigarette tax stamp or other-tobacco-products account.
A bond comes in when a distributor wants to buy cigarette tax stamps on a 30-day credit period instead of paying up front. To do that, the distributor executes a bond with a surety qualified in South Carolina, in an amount equal to 110% of the distributor’s estimated 30-day tax liability, but not less than $2,000.
The bond guarantees that the distributor pays each month’s stamp liability — due by the 20th of the following month — so the State is secured on credit purchases. If you fail to pay, the Department can recover against the bond, and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Enter the amount your stamp volume requires, 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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Tobacco tax bond, issued today.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter your required amount and file with the Department of Revenue the same day.