Tax 61.08(13)(a)(a) The retailer shall be responsible for the condition and security of lottery tickets received. If the retailer's lottery tickets are lost, stolen, mutilated, damaged, unaccountable, or otherwise unsalable, the retailer shall be solely responsible for those tickets. Except as provided in
pars. (c) and
(cm), the administrator may not reimburse the retailer for those losses.
Tax 61.08(13)(b)
(b) The retailer shall report by telephone within 24 hours any stolen tickets to the Wisconsin lottery, consistent with the instructions for reporting stolen tickets as indicated in the retailer contract.
Tax 61.08(13)(c)
(c) The administrator may credit the retailer's account for the value that the retailer paid for instant scratch tickets that are unsalable after all the following conditions are met:
Tax 61.08(13)(c)1.
1. The tickets became unsalable due to any malfunction of lottery equipment used in the sale of the tickets or if the tickets are deemed to be misprinted or void, consistent with the features and procedures document of the game to which the ticket or share belongs.
Tax 61.08(13)(c)2.
2. The unsalable tickets are returned to the lottery before the settlement date of the game to which the pack belongs. Tickets returned after the settlement date may not be credited for value by the administrator.
Tax 61.08(13)(c)3.
3. There is no validation of any ticket that is returned for credit, and the latex or other protective measures on each returned ticket show no signs of tampering.
Tax 61.08(13)(c)4.
4. At the discretion of the administrator, the lottery may assess a service charge against the retailer account to recover the cost of returning the tickets.
Tax 61.08(13)(c)5.
5. Credit shall be the retailer's purchase price, and any credit or service charge shall be made to the retailer's electronic fund transfer account.
Tax 61.08(13)(cm)1.1. The administrator may credit the retailer's account for the value the retailer paid for instant scratch tickets that are stolen. In determining whether to provide credit, the administrator may consider the following factors:
Tax 61.08(13)(cm)2.
2. Credit under this paragraph shall be the retailer's purchase price, and any credit shall be made to the retailer's electronic fund transfer account.
Tax 61.08(13)(d)
(d) In the event that the lottery administrator announces a settlement date for a game, a retailer may return tickets for credit on or before that announced settlement provided that conditions under
par. (c) 2. to
5. are met.
Tax 61.08(13)(e)
(e) The administrator may charge a retailer for shipments delivered on a date different than the retailer's scheduled order delivery date or shipped on a date other than the retailer's shipment date. If a retailer is charged, the expense shall be limited to the cost of the delivery.
Tax 61.08(14)(a)(a) All lottery tickets received by the retailer shall be deemed to have been purchased by the retailer.
Tax 61.08(14)(b)
(b) The retailer's accounting records and correspondence under
par. (a) shall be available to the administrator for examination and copying during the retailer's regular business hours. All of those records and correspondence are subject to seizure and audit without prior notice.
Tax 61.08(14)(bm)
(bm) The retailer's electronic fund transfer account shall be debited no less often than every 60 days for tickets received within the last 60 days.
Tax 61.08(14)(c)
(c) A retailer shall remit to the lottery, no less frequently than every sixty (60) days, the proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets received since the last remission of proceeds. The terms of billing processes shall be set by the administrator.
Tax 61.08(14)(d)
(d) If the retailer failed to place sufficient funds in the electronic fund transfer account for the tickets received, the retailer may not receive more tickets until the retailer pays the amount due the lottery consistent with
pars. (bm) and
(c), or until the retailer has signed an agreement with the administrator which indicates an alternative schedule of payment for outstanding debts consistent with
s. Tax 61.02 (1m). The administrator shall determine whether to offer an alternative payment agreement to a retailer on a case by case basis, taking into consideration the retailer's previous payment history.
Tax 61.08(14)(e)
(e) The administrator may assess the retailer a surcharge, an interest penalty, or both, for each dishonored retailer's check or electronic fund transfer. The surcharge shall be equal to the costs incurred, incident to each dishonor. Interest may be charged only in the event that a retailer account is referred for overdue collection, and may be assessed at a rate not to exceed 8.5% of the overdue amount.
Tax 61.08(15)
(15) Bulk reselling without permission is prohibited. Tax 61.08(15)(a)(a) A retailer may not intentionally resell, or aid in the act of reselling, bulk tickets without the written permission of the administrator.
Tax 61.08(15)(b)
(b) For purposes of this section, “reselling" means selling or aiding in the selling of multiple tickets to anyone engaged in the business of selling lottery tickets for profit. Persons who participate in ticket buying pools among friends, family or co-workers are not involved in reselling, provided that all tickets are purchased by all participants at the price set by the lottery administrator.
Tax 61.08(16)(a)(a) The retailer shall redeem low tier prizes for tickets sold at the retailer's outlet and presented to the retailer by the customer. If the customer elects to redeem the low tier prize at another retail location or at any Wisconsin lottery office, the Wisconsin lottery shall debit the retailer's account in that amount.
Tax 61.08(16)(b)
(b) The retailer may not redeem winning lottery tickets for prizes in amounts different from the amounts authorized by the administrator or condition redemption of a lottery prize upon the purchase of any other item or service, or impose any restriction upon the redemption of a lottery prize unless specifically authorized in writing by the administrator.
Tax 61.08(17)(a)(a) The administrator may accept returned break-open tickets for credit only under any of the following circumstances:
Tax 61.08(17)(a)1.
1. If the tickets are defective, the retailer shall return as many of the suspected defective tickets as is possible, using the original packaging materials if possible.
Tax 61.08(17)(a)2.
2. If the order was filled incorrectly by the Wisconsin lottery, the retailer shall return any incorrectly shipped break-open tickets, using the original packaging materials if possible.
Tax 61.08(17)(a)3.
3. If the shipment of tickets is unopened by the retailer. To be considered unopened, the package shall contain all the tickets that it contained when delivered to the retailer and have the original packaging and shipping seals intact and unopened.
Tax 61.08(17)(a)4.
4. If the lottery administrator announces a settlement date for a game, a retailer may return tickets for credit on or before the date provided that the retailer returns the tickets using the original packaging materials, or in a manner acceptable to the lottery administrator.
Tax 61.08(17)(b)
(b) The retailer shall redeem all prizes from tickets purchased at the retailer's outlet unless the features and procedures document for the game state otherwise.
Tax 61.08(18)
(18) Point-of-sale material. The retailer shall maintain and display prominently lottery point-of-sale material, including the door decal, current game poster, current game player brochures and the ticket dispenser. The retailer shall maintain and display a sign provided by the lottery that indicates which games no longer have a top prize.
Tax 61.08(19)
(19) Right to appeal suspension or termination. In the event the administrator suspends or terminates the retailer's contract, the retailer is entitled to an appeal in accordance with the provisions set forth under
s. Tax 61.10.
Tax 61.08(20)
(20) Suspension or termination procedure. The retailer, upon notice of the suspension or termination, shall immediately stop selling lottery tickets. Within 2 weeks of the suspension or termination, the retailer shall make payment on any money owed to the Wisconsin lottery and surrender all unsold tickets and all state owned lottery property.
Tax 61.08(21)
(21) Grounds for suspension. The retailer's contract may be suspended without prior notice by the Wisconsin lottery for any of the following reasons:
Tax 61.08(21)(a)
(a) The retailer failed to meet one or more of the qualifications for being a retailer under s.
565.10, Stats., or under the Wisconsin lottery's administrative rules.
Tax 61.08(21)(b)
(b) The retailer violated a provision under
ch. 565, Stats., or of this chapter.
Tax 61.08(21)(c)
(c) The retailer failed to sell a minimum monthly average of $400 worth of instant scratch tickets or instant break-open tickets or the sum of both in any fiscal quarter, under
s. Tax 61.04 (1) (d).
Tax 61.08(21)(d)
(d) The retailer intentionally sold a lottery ticket to a person under 18 years of age.
Tax 61.08(21)(e)
(e) The retailer endangered the security of the Wisconsin lottery.
Tax 61.08(21)(f)
(f) The retailer engaged in fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or other conduct prejudicial to public confidence in the Wisconsin lottery.
Tax 61.08(21)(g)
(g) The retailer failed to remit money owed to the Wisconsin lottery or failed to make payment on or before the settlement date.
Tax 61.08(21)(h)
(h) The retailer engaged in advertising of lottery products or services, or both, that in the administrator's determination was false, deceptive, or misleading.
Tax 61.08(21)(i)
(i) The retailer failed to follow instructions and procedures for the conduct of any particular lottery game or lottery special event.
Tax 61.08(22)
(22) Grounds for termination. The retailer's contract may be terminated by the Wisconsin Lottery, regardless of whether the retailer has been previously suspended. Any issue which is grounds for termination may be considered instead for suspension, at the discretion of the administrator. The administrator may consider whether a retailer acted to promptly cure a cause within a reasonable time after notice, when reviewing the grounds for termination. The retailer's contract may be terminated for the following reasons:
Tax 61.08(22)(a)
(a) The retailer failed to meet one or more of the qualifications for being a retailer under s.
565.10, Stats., or under this chapter.
Tax 61.08(22)(b)
(b) The retailer endangered the security of the lottery, or engaged in fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or other conduct in a manner that would cause perceptions prejudicial to public confidence.
Tax 61.08 History
History: Cr.
Register, March, 1989, No. 399, eff. 4-1-89; corrections made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 6. and 7., Stats.,
Register, March, 1995, No. 471; am. (11) (c) and (21) (c),
Register, October, 2000, No. 538, eff. 11-1-00;
CR 01-088: r. (15) (c) and am. (1), (3), (5), (7), (8), (10), (11) (b), (e) and (h), (13), (14) (b), (bm), (c) and (d), (15) (a), (b) and (d), (16), (19), (20) and (21) (intro.) and (a) to (h)
Register February 2002 No. 554, eff. 3-1-02; CR: 04-083: am. (11) (c), (13) (a), (14) (d), (16) (a) and (21) (c), r. (11) (h), (12), and (15), cr. (13) (c) and (d), r. and recr. (17) (a)
Register April 2005 No. 592, eff. 5-1-05;
CR 07-087: cr. (11) (h), (j), (k), (13) (e), (14) (c), (15), (17) (a) 4., and (22), am. (13) (c) 1., (14) (bm), (17) (b), (18), (21) (intro.) and (g), renum. (14) (c) and (d) to be (14) (d) and (e) and am.
Register April 2008 No. 628, eff. 5-1-08;
CR 13-034: am. (11) (h), (k), (13) (a), cr. (13) (cm)
Register December 2013 No. 696, eff. 1-1-14.
Tax 61.085
Tax 61.085
Retailer performance program. Tax 61.085(1)(a)(a) The retailer performance program or RPP is intended to provide additional compensation, above the compensation provided under s.
565.10 (14) (b) 1. or
2., Stats., to retailers who meet certain performance goals identified by the department of revenue. This additional compensation is authorized under ss.
565.02 (4) (g) and
565.10 (14) (b) 3m., Stats.
Tax 61.085(1)(b)
(b) This program is applicable to lottery retailer sales transactions beginning on January 1, 2000.
Tax 61.085(2)(a)
(a) “Appropriate sales history" means the historical sales data that is used to calculate performance of a retail location within the RPP. The appropriate quarterly sales history data may be from either the comparable history quarter as defined under
par. (c) or the immediately previous quarter as defined under
par. (e). The appropriate annual sales history data shall be from the comparable history fiscal year under
par. (b).
Tax 61.085(2)(b)
(b) “Comparable history fiscal year" means the previous fiscal year that has sales history in each sales quarter for a specific retail location.
Tax 61.085(2)(c)
(c) “Comparable history quarter" means the full sales quarter that is one year prior to the current sales quarter in which the RPP is being administered.
Tax 61.085(2)(d)
(d) “Gross sales" means the sales data as indicated by Wisconsin lottery accounts receivable documentation of weekly invoicing of the purchase of Wisconsin lottery products by retailers.
Tax 61.085(2)(e)
(e) “Immediately previous quarter" means the full sales quarter immediately prior to the current sales quarter in which the RPP is being administered.
Tax 61.085(2)(f)1.
1. Any ticket which uses a scratch, pull-tab or break-open method, or a combination of those methods, as the method of player interaction with the ticket.
Tax 61.085(2)(f)2.
2. Any ticket where the features and procedures documentation under s.
565.27, Stats., indicates the ticket is an instant ticket for purposes of the retailer performance program as identified under this section.
Tax 61.085(2)(g)
(g) “Retail location" means the place of business at which lottery products such as instant tickets or terminal generated tickets are sold, as selected under
s. Tax 61.04.
Tax 61.085(2)(h)
(h) “Sales goals incentive" means the component of the RPP that pays incentives to retailers who increase gross sales in a specified sales quarter or specified fiscal year, or both, when the sales quarter or fiscal year is compared to an appropriate sales history as defined under
par. (a).
Tax 61.085(2)(hm)
(hm) “Sales quarter" means a quarter of the Wisconsin lottery fiscal year that is 13 weeks in length. Beginning in fiscal year 2001, the administrator shall determine the start and end dates of all sales quarters of a fiscal year no later than one month prior to the beginning of that fiscal year, and upon request shall provide the calendar dates that define each quarter of a fiscal year. A quarter shall start and end on dates that are consistent with the standard billing cycle that the lottery uses to collect revenue from retailer accounts.
Tax 61.085(2)(i)
(i) “Short-term incentive" means the component of the RPP that pays incentives to retailers who satisfy a performance expectation as established in short-term incentive features and procedures documentation.
Tax 61.085(2)(j)
(j) “Winning ticket incentive" means the component of the RPP that pays incentives to retailers who sell winning lottery tickets.
Tax 61.085(3)
(3) Eligibility. Any retailer may participate in the RPP if it meets all of the following eligibility requirements:
Tax 61.085(3)(a)
(a) The retailer honors the current retailer contract, including any applicable addenda.
Tax 61.085(3)(c)
(c) The retailer satisfies any qualifying requirements specific to each component of the RPP. If a retailer fails to satisfy the requirements specific to a component of the RPP, the retailer may not be considered qualified for that component of the RPP. A retailer qualifies for each component separately, and qualifying for one component of the RPP does not affect qualifying for another component.
Tax 61.085(4)
(4) Design. The retailer performance program shall consist of 3 components, the winning ticket incentive, the sales goals incentive, and the short-term incentive described as follows:
Tax 61.085(4)(a)
(a)
Winning ticket incentive. The expected performance of the winning ticket incentive component of the RPP is the selling of winning lottery tickets. To qualify for the winning ticket incentive, a retailer shall satisfy the eligibility requirements in
sub. (3). An incentive shall be paid to a retailer for selling any winning lottery ticket where the stated prize value of the winning lottery ticket is $600 or greater. The incentive shall be paid as follows:
Tax 61.085(4)(a)1.
1. For winning lottery tickets, 2% of the stated prize value shall be paid to a retailer on each prize, up to a maximum of $100,000 per prize level per drawing. In the event that a retailer or retailers earn more than $300,000 from any one prize level in any one drawing, then the lottery shall divide $300,000 equally among all retailers who earned an incentive from that prize level.
Tax 61.085(4)(b)
(b) Sales goals incentive. The sales goals incentive component of the RPP shall pay a retailer an incentive based on an increase in the amount of sales over the appropriate sales history. The incentive shall be tracked, measured and paid separately for each product type. For each product type, a retailer shall satisfy eligibility requirements in
sub. (3), sell a minimum amount of instant tickets as indicated under
s. Tax 61.08 (11) (c), and qualify for the product type under
sub. (5).
Tax 61.085(4)(b)1.
1. Quarterly payments may be paid for instant ticket product and for non-jackpot terminal generated product, and shall be made in the following manner:
Tax 61.085(4)(b)1.a.
a. For the instant ticket sales product type, the retailer shall receive an incentive calculated by comparing a sales quarter against the appropriate sales history to determine if a sales increase has occurred. If a sales increase has not occurred, no incentive may be paid. If a sales increase has occurred, the retailer shall receive up to 2% of the sales increase unless the administrator adjusts the payment percentage to a lower percentage under
sub. (7) to ensure that appropriate funding authority is maintained within the current fiscal year. Any adjustment made shall consider historical sales and incentive information and shall be applied equally to all retailers. Information regarding the details of any adjustment shall be made available upon request to the administrator.
Tax 61.085(4)(b)1.b.
b. For the non-jackpot terminal-generated sales product type, the retailer shall receive an incentive calculated by comparing a sales quarter against the appropriate sales history to determine if a sales increase has occurred. If a sales increase has not occurred, no incentive may be paid. If a sales increase has occurred, the retailer shall receive up to 2% of the sales increase unless the administrator adjusts the payment percentage to a lower percentage under
sub. (7) to ensure that appropriate funding authority is maintained within the current fiscal year. Any adjustment made shall consider historical sales and incentive information and shall be applied equally to all retailers. Information regarding the details of any adjustment shall be made available upon request to the administrator.
