WY House Bill 141 Repealing Excise Tax Dies in Senate
After passing the Wyoming House, House Bill 141, repealing the excise tax on malt beverages, has died in the Senate. Read More
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After passing the Wyoming House, House Bill 141, repealing the excise tax on malt beverages, has died in the Senate. Read More
House Bill 140, seeking to raise the excise tax on malt beverages by 4.5 cents per liter, has failed to receive consideration. Read More
Passing the House, H.B. 1179 excludes the production of cider from the commodity assessment that applies to vinifera wine grape growers and producers, which funds the advertising of Washington wines through the Washington Wine Commission. Read More
Tabled in the Senate following House passage, House Bill 1002 seeks to direct funding to the Department of Revenue to upgrade the electronic tax collection technology for submitting reports and remitting taxes related to alcoholic beverages. Read More
Amended in committee, House Bill 1858 seeks to raise the excise tax on low-point beer from $11.25 to $45.00 per barrel to account for its exemption from sales tax. Read More
Assembly Bill 5422 would provide a tax credit to wineries, breweries and distilleries for bottling, packaging, and labeling expenses. Read More
Companions A.B. 4176 and S.B. 2451 provide for a $0.25 fee to be included in the price of each alcoholic beverage sold in certain municipalities for the purpose of funding alcohol education, rehabilitation and enforcement. Read More
House Bill 718 has been deferred in committee, while its companion Senate Bill 759 remains active in the Senate. The bills seek to reduce the per gallon tax rate to twenty-seven cents on beer sold in barrels for the first …Read More
H.B. 96 seeks to change existing law, under which a brewery is generally not allowed to operate a restaurant on its premises and dispense alcoholic beverages, to create a license for limited production breweries that allows them to produce beer …Read More
Providing for Sunday sales, H.B.1624 has stalled in committee. 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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