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Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow

14 July 2011

And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR BEER! Okay, that was really from Braveheart. [...]

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Brewers and Drinkers Cheer Proposed Small BREW Act

30 March 2011

Let’s get one thing out of the way from the get go: I enjoy a good beer. And more often than not, a good beer tends to come from a craft brewery. Don’t believe me? My wedding reception was in a beer hall (Stoudt’s, in case you’re wondering, complete with a polka band) and I [...]

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World Cup Equals Victory for Germany’s Finances

21 August 2010

Germany may not have taken home the World Cup – but plenty of cups boosted revenues last month. The Finance Ministry of Germany is reporting that the country’s beer tax in July yielded revenues of a nearly 10% increase over the same time period last year. How much are we talking? The tax for July [...]

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Beer Today, Taxed Tomorrow

6 April 2010

When legislators across the country took steps to increase the tax on soda, many taxpayers shrugged their shoulders. After all, it’s just soda. But now, now lawmakers are getting serious. They’re talking about increasing the tax on beer. (I know.) And not just anywhere: the increase is planned for one of the microbrew capitals of [...]

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Tax Beer? Why? Nothing Helps*

23 February 2010

Beer drinkers in the Mountain State are struggling to raise revenue in a bad economy. Some members of the state’s legislature think they have a solution: tax beer. West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee Chairman Don Perdue, who sponsored the bill, says that an increase in the tax is necessary. His plan to [...]

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More Beer? Why? Nothing Helps.*

5 July 2007

My husband and beer snob/critic/drinker believes, like many of his kind that some things are sacred. You don’t mess with a good beer. Unfortunately, this is at odds with the Australian Brewer’s Excise Tax which taxes a brewery based on the alcohol content of its beer. Generally speaking, the higher the alcohol content in a [...]

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