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How Taxes Apply to Cannabis Inventory Beginning January 1, 2018

Guidance on How Taxes Apply to Cannabis Inventory Beginning January 1, 2018

Beginning January 1, 2018, cannabis retailers must collect the cannabis excise tax from their customers on each retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products. The cannabis excise tax applies to all retail sales, including sales of cannabis or cannabis products the retailer purchased prior to January 1, 2018. Cannabis retailers are required to pay the cannabis excise tax to a cannabis distributor. Cannabis cultivators owe the cultivation tax on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market on or after January 1, 2018. The cultivation tax does not apply to harvested cannabis a cultivator transferred or sold prior to January 1, 2018. Cultivators are required to pay the cultivation tax to a distributor or manufacturer.

Cannabis excise tax must be paid to cannabis distributors

On and after January 1, 2018, distributors who sell or transfer cannabis or cannabis products to a cannabis retailer are required to collect the cannabis excise tax from the retailer. In addition, cannabis retailers, who acquired cannabis or cannabis products prior to January 1, 2018, upon which they did not pay the cannabis excise tax to a distributor, must collect the 15 percent cannabis excise tax from their customers. Retailers must pay the excise tax on those sales by the 15th of the following month in which they collected the tax to a licensed cannabis distributor with whom they have a business relationship (that is, a distributor that they purchase or acquire cannabis or cannabis products from on or after January 1, 2018).

Cannabis retailer – collecting and invoicing requirements

As a cannabis retailer, you are not required to separately state the cannabis excise tax on your receipt or invoice to your customer, but you must include the following statement, “The cannabis excise taxes are included in the total amount of the invoice.” The cannabis excise tax is imposed on the purchaser as 15 percent of the average market price.

To calculate the cannabis excise tax due on your retail sales of cannabis or cannabis products that you acquired prior to January 1, 2018, you must multiply the average market price by the 15 percent excise tax rate. For information on how to determine the average market price, please see our Tax Guide for Cannabis Businesses at www.cdtfa.ca.gov/industry/cannabis.htm.

Your sales of cannabis and cannabis products are generally subject to sales tax. The sales tax is due on the retail selling price of cannabis or cannabis products, including the cannabis excise tax.

Cultivation tax not due on cannabis transferred or sold prior to January 1, 2018

As a reminder, cannabis cultivators are required to pay the cultivation tax to a distributor or manufacturer on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market beginning January 1, 2018. However, the cultivation tax is not due on harvested cannabis transferred or sold to distributors or manufacturers prior to January 1, 2018, even if entry into the commercial market (completes testing and complies with quality assurance review) occurs after that date. Manufacturers and distributors must maintain documentation to support that the cannabis was transferred or sold from a cultivator prior to January 1, 2018.

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