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Help increase your access to craft beer from America's small brewers
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Dear Beer Enthusiasts, Homebrewers, Breweries & Beer-Allied Companies,
We are asking you to support America's small brewers by making a very simple
request of your U.S. Representative to become a co-sponsor of H.R. 4278.
Federal legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives,
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23&email=mgbrew(a)comcast.net> H.R. 4278 (link opens a PDF), seeks to enact a
reduction in beer excise tax for America's small brewers.
For small brewers brewing less than 6 million barrels annually, this
legislation would cut the small brewer tax rate in half, to $3.50/barrel on
the first 60,000 barrels, and reduce the upper tax rate from $18/barrel to
$16/barrel on beer production above 60,000 barrels up to 2 million barrels.
Of the 1,525 breweries in America, 962 are brewpubs and 470 are the smallest
bottling breweries, which produce volumes of 15,000 barrels of beer a year
or less and sell their beers in local markets. Once barrel equals about 13.8
cases of beer.
The original small brewer tax rate of $7/barrel was established in 1976 and
has never been updated. Since then, the annual U.S. production of America's
largest brewery increased from about 45 million to 107 million barrels and
over 200 million barrels globally (or 1,240,000,000 five-gallon batches of
homebrew!). Much has changed and the challenges small brewers face as small
American businesses have grown dramatically since 1976.
Why is this a good idea?
1. A tax reduction will help grow small business breweries and provide
greater access to the beers you enjoy.
2. Harvard University's John Friedman's study,
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Reduction (H.R. 4278), (link opens a PDF), reveals that H.R. 4278 would also
help stimulate job creation quickly and at a low cost:
o The bill would generate more than 2,700 new jobs over the first year to
18 months, followed by an average of 375 new jobs per year over the
following four years.
Please contact your U.S. Representative and ask that he/she sign on as a
co-sponsor of H.R. 4278.
We have developed a
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tools you need to make the case to your Representative for supporting this
tax relief measure-and by extension, for supporting the small brewery
businesses that are such a vital part of our local communities.
On the resource page, you will find a link to a list of current sponsors of
H.R. 4278. If your Representative DOES NOT appear on this list, please take
a moment and email your Member of Congress to ask them to cosponsor H.R.
4278.
If your Representative is already a cosponsor, please email him/her a brief
thank you for their support of small brewers and you, the craft beer drinker
and enthusiast.
Thanks for helping us advance the interests of all small brewers by
contacting your Representative on this issue. Your active support is
absolutely essential to our success.
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