NC Tax Provision for Alcohol Manufacturing Advances
Passing initial committee consideration, House Bill 619 provides a sales tax exemption for equipment, machinery, and supplies used in creating certain types of alcoholic beverages. Read More
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Passing initial committee consideration, House Bill 619 provides a sales tax exemption for equipment, machinery, and supplies used in creating certain types of alcoholic beverages. Read More
House Bill 373 relates to notification of alcohol by volume in beers to be consumed on-premises. Read More
S.B. 3673 seeks to authorize limited breweries and craft distilleries to sell at retail and offer for sampling purposes product bottled and stored off-site under certain circumstances and authorizes craft distilleries to manufacture redistilled alcoholic beverages. Read More
House Bill 397 relates to the ability of farmer brewers and pub brewers to fill growlers. Read More
S.B. 3776 provides a temporary deduction for food and beverage establishments, including breweries, distilleries, wineries, and brew pubs, from certain sales and use tax remittances. Read More
H.B. 453 provides that no licensee shall give or permit to be given money or any other thing of substantial value in any effort to induce any person to persuade or influence any other person to purchase, or contract for …Read More
A.B. 5550 permits holders of certain alcohol manufacturing licenses to offer retail memberships to customers. Read More
House Bill 2620 seeks to replace the current 3.2 malt liquor definition with a 5.5 alcoholic beverage definition, which would include, but not be limited to, beer, ale, hard cider, hard seltzer, and canned cocktails. Read More
Senate Bill 6632 authorizes the sale of merchandise other than beer by licensed breweries and licensed farm breweries and the operation of another business on a licensed premise; authorizes licensed breweries and farm breweries to charge for tours and tastings. Read More
H.B. 475 relates to the selling of malt beverages or malt beverage products produced by a pub brewery. Read More
Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
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