California has implemented a new waste recycling fee for Covered Battery-Embedded products (CBE waste recycling fee). We are required to collect the CBE waste recycling fee from your customers upon the purchase of a new or refurbished CBE product. The fee is 1.5 percent of the retail sales price for each CBE product sold or leased for use in California and should not exceed $15 per product.
Additionally, the fee must be listed as a separate line item on the receipt and cannot be included in the sales tax calculation.
Our VAR has recommended an approach but I imagine this would apply to a large number of Acumatica customers. How are others handling this? If it’s helpful, we use Avalara as our tax provider and will shortly upgrade to 2026R1.
