According to the Billings Gazette who reported the news on Sunday, legislators in Montana will start putting a gross sales tax on medical marijuana starting July 1st. It was not too long ago that SB333 passed and one of the regulations was a gross sales tax.

Starting July 1st, the tax will be 4% of gross sales and will run until June 30th, 2018. Then the tax will be decreased to 2%.

This is the first of its kind medical marijuana program with a tax on the drug for the state of Montana but the set up is not all that different from a specialty tax.

Gene Walborn, the deputy director of Montana’s revenue department commented, “Getting our computer system changed so it can accept those returns and create those accounts.”

“We may have to do some changes to our physical buildings to be able to accept cash and maybe have some cash counters and that kind of thing,” Walborn said.

It’s unknown how much physical cash the department would have to handle for tax payments.

For now, marijuana is illegal under federal law, but according to Pew analysis, the Obama-era U.S. Departments of Treasury and Justice would not interfere with marijuana regulatory systems created in states.


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