11. Every retail vendor shall collect, as an agent of the Minister, the tax provided for in section 8 on every sale of tobacco that he makes.
Every retail vendor shall, not later than the fifteenth day in each month, render an account to the Minister in prescribed form of that tax he has collected or should have collected during the preceding month and shall remit to him at the same time the amount of that tax.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a retail vendor is not required to render an account to the Minister, unless he demands it, or to remit to him the tax collected in respect of the sale of tobacco which he acquired from a collection officer holding a registration certificate where the retail vendor has paid to that officer the amount provided for in section 17.2 in respect of that tobacco.
If the tax collected in respect of the tobacco referred to in the third paragraph is greater than the amount the retail vendor paid under section 17.2 to a collection officer holding a registration certificate, the Minister may require that the difference be remitted to him.
R. S. 1964, c. 72, s. 11; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1981, c. 24, s. 11; 1986, c. 17, s. 4.