For the twelfth year in a row, Washington state has the highest excise tax rate on distilled spirits in the nation, at $36.

The American Beverage Association, alongside a group of grocers, retailers and restaurant owners, filed a lawsuit Wednesday ...

The state’s alcohol taxes are complex. Distributors, who take beverages from their producers including breweries and distilleries and deliver them to retail shops, disagree on whether those tax ...

Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration has proposed hiking the beverage tax on alcohol for retailers in New Jersey by 10% as a way to bring the state more money for its upcoming budget. The increased ...

WASHINGTON, USA — Brewers in the Pacific Northwest face rising tax challenges ... the state budget. In Oregon, Rep. Sanchez's proposal continues her years-long effort to establish alcohol ...

A 3% local tax on marijuana ... from the state "I don't obviously like revenue that's generated from something that could be perceived as negative, like cigarette taxes and alcohol taxes and ...

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's House passed an alcohol tax increase late Sunday night, but the gap to close the state's gaping midyear budget hole remains wide, and Gov. John Bel Edwards said ...

Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all liquor in the state. “The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known ...

State Rep. Tawna Sanchez (D-Portland ... Sanchez convened a work group with the alcohol industry last year; the group did not agree on a tax hike. But on March 25, at Sanchez’s request ...

Currently, across all states, the benefit can be used for "any food or food product intended for human consumption," except alcohol ... "American tax dollars should not be used to pay for junk ...

THAT’S BECAUSE OF A TAX. STEM STATE LAWMAKERS WANT TO PASS WHEN IT COMES TO BUYING ALCOHOL. IF SOMEONE IS SPENDING $100 ON ALCOHOL, THEY’RE PAYING $6 ON ALCOHOL TAX. IF SOMEBODY IS SPENDING $ ...

Their proposal would maintain the state’s current alcohol excise taxes, redirecting the roughly $50 million in revenue to local alcohol alleviation programs, and their proposed 6% sales tax ...