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  Posted June 02, 2008                                                                                   JLZ Business Services

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      Service Station Gallonage Throughput Report

The State of California requires by law that all gasoline service stations in the state have available at the location a Gasoline Gallonage Throughput Report. This report must be shown to a Department of Weights and Measures field inspector upon request.

         

How It's Valued
You have on display at your station a permit issued by either the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, or, the South Coast Air Quality Management District. These permits are issued under the name of your "Underground Gasoline Tank Storage Permit". Each permit allows only a certain number of gallons to be sold at that particular station per year. Permitted allowable gallons do differ from station to station.

              

What They Audit
What the field inspector is looking for is to see if you have surpassed (don't you wish) the allowable gallons to be sold pursuant to your operating permit. For example, if your permit allows 3,850,000 available gallons to be sold per year, your gasoline gallon sales may not exceed that amount.

      

What You Must Show
You must have available for the inspector the last 12 months gasoline sales. These should be listed in gallons by grade and totaled each month. For example: If this is June 2008, then you would need to show June of 2007 through May 2008. Below shows what a sample Throughput Report looks like.

                

* JLZ Accounting clients receive a monthly Throughput Report ready for easy placement into a binder.

                

My Service Station - Sample Gasoline Throughput Report

Month

Regular Plus Supreme

Total Gallons Sold

May 2008 189,453 33,501 37,452 260,406
Apr 2008 190,321 34,656 38,901 263,878
Mar 2008 189,677 34,101 37,210 260,988
Feb 2008 188,777 33,836 35,299 257,912
Jan 2008 189,921 35,666 37,821 262,885
Dec 2007 187,009 29,019 34,298 250,326
Nov 2007 186,930 28,883 33,552 249,365
Oct 2007 188,388 32,665 35,432 256,485
Sep 2007 189,567 35,418 36,762 261,747
Aug 2007 190,221 35,400 36,331 261,952
Jul 2007 187,520 30,111 35,710 253,341
Jun 2007 188,255 32,119 36,407 256,781

Total:

3,096,066