Category Archives: TTB

It’s Not What You Do, But How You Do It: TTB Accepts Offer in Compromise from Alexander Valley Cellars

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau accepted a $25,000 offer in compromise from the Healdsburg, Calif., vintner.  Alexander Valley Cellars allegedly failed to electronically deposit Federal

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Spending Bill Funds TTB Trade Practice Investigations, Highway Safety

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

That Omnibus bill passed by Congress and signed by the President on Friday includes $5 million marked for Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau to enforce industry trade practice rules.  It’s the

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TTB Accepts $32,000 Compromise Offer from Citizen Cider

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

The Burlington, Vt., maker of such varieties (all under the Citizen Cider name) as Unified Press, Dirty Mayor, Lake Hopper and Wit’s Up, offered $32,000 to settle a $238,142.11 liability for unpaid federal excise taxes.

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TTB Eases Procedure When Wine Is Stored Other Than at Producing Winery

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

The new tax law doesn’t address the question of whether tax credits in the bill, which reduce the amount of tax paid on wine, apply to

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TTB, California ABC Probe Trade Practices in Napa and Sonoma Counties

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

The focus of the investigation is on consignment sales arrangements, which, like other unlawful trade practices, are used

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Gov’t Shutdown Halted COLA Processing, But Not TTB’s Tax Collection, Trade Practice Enforcement or Puerto Rican Operations

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Donna Whitaker

What difference did the failure of Congress to continue to fund government operations make for the bev/al industry? 

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