Rev. & Tax. Code, § 60050.2 · Chapter 2. Imposition of Tax
Rev. & Tax. Code, § 60050.2
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) For the privilege of storing, for the purpose of sale, each supplier, wholesaler, and retailer owning 1,000 or more gallons of tax-paid diesel fuel on November 1, 2017, shall pay a storage tax of twenty cents ($0.20) per gallon of tax-paid diesel fuel in storage according to the volumetric measure thereof.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Owning” means having title to the diesel fuel.
(2) “Retailer” means any person who sells diesel fuel in this state to a person who subsequently uses the diesel fuel.
(3) “Storing” includes the ownership or possession of tax-paid diesel fuel outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system, including the holding of tax-paid diesel fuel for sale at wholesale or retail locations stored in a container of any kind, including railroad tank cars and trucks or trailer cargo tanks. “Storing” also includes tax-paid diesel fuel purchased from and invoiced by the seller, and tax-paid diesel fuel removed from a terminal or entered into by a supplier, prior to the date specified in subdivision (a) and in transit on that date.
(4) “Wholesaler” means any person who sells diesel fuel in this state for resale to a retailer or to a person who is not a retailer and subsequently uses the diesel fuel.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 5, Sec. 33. (SB 1) Effective April 28, 2017.
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