WI cigarette tax bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
The security the Wisconsin Department of Revenue can require from a cigarette permittee under Wis. Stat. § 139.322 — generally after a missed payment or a late report. The Secretary of Revenue sets the amount on your notice, and we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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Apply to filed in one sitting.
No underwriting queue for the standard cigarette tax bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the Department of Revenue. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the security amount DOR required, 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 satisfy DOR and keep (or restore) your cigarette permit. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure on your Department of Revenue notice and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the cigarette tax bond actually covers
Wisconsin taxes cigarettes through permittees — manufacturers, distributors, and others — who buy and apply tax stamps and remit the tax to the Department of Revenue. Most permittees never post a bond. But under Wis. Stat. § 139.322, the Secretary of Revenue can require security from a permittee that has not paid the tax or has failed to timely file a report.
The security may be a surety bond payable to the state in the form the Secretary prescribes, in an amount the Secretary determines. If a permittee required to post security fails to do so, the Secretary may refuse to issue or revoke the permit — so the bond is what keeps a permit alive after a delinquency.
The bond stands behind the cigarette tax you owe: after 10 days' notice, the Department can recover delinquent tax, interest, and penalties from the security. We issue the amount DOR set, at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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Five minutes, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the security amount the Department of Revenue set — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter the amount DOR required and file the same day.