As soon as it crosses the throat of your fuel tank, it's taxable,
assuming it is an over the road vehicle. Keep a log and send a check.
You can distribute BD as part of a coop, but you can't sell it w/o a
lot of hassle.
Kurt Nolte wrote:
From what I understand, well, at least as it was explained to me
by the DOT here in South Carolina, is that <i>anything</i>
used as a fuel on the roads has to have the road tax paid on it. It
doesn't matter what it's being sold as, additive, fuel, or even tank
cleaner, if you use it as your primary fuel source on the road and they
find out about it, you will be fined and backtaxed (In the event of it
not already having been taxed. I think technically you're supposed to
pay the tax on any fuel you produce, as well, but I don't know about
any kind of cut-off or buffer you have to fill before paying. Maybe
it's something that could be individually worked out?
I found all this out when I was looking into powering a car on
Kerosene, which at the time was half the price of unleaded gasoline.
I've been toying with the idea of, once I'm up and experienced
with this, establishing a non-profit business to sell BD at-cost to
local merchants and the bus systems (Schools and otherwise) just to
help them free up some money to work on improvements they need to work
on. But I'd have to hit some pretty massive capacities to be able to do
that, thus the experienced part of the requirements. (The CATbus system
alone burns through some two thousand gallons per week, by what I've
figured.))
On 10/3/05, Evergreen Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Is
anyone familiar with any grants, (federal, preferably) for BD
research/production? I'm sure they are out there, I just need to find
them.
Also, does anyone know where to look for the tax-break info for
companies using BD, and what percentage BD they need to use to receive
the benefit?
And, lastly, I know you can make some number of gallons per year before
you are expected to pay taxes. What's that number? And if you sell even
1 gallon, you're responsible for all the associated taxes, regardless
of how many gallons you've made, right? I'm wondering, what if you sold
it as an additive to people. Like "Come pick up 5 gallons and add it to
your fuel tank", since it's sold as an "additive", think you still need
to pay diesel taxes on it? Even if people ran it as B100, if you sold
it as an additive, might you get out of liability? That would be like
someone running "drigas" as their only fuel, legally I mean.
Yes? No? Comments?
Thanks!
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